cloth
- Museum number
- Af1905,1209.4
- Description
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A single narrow strip of cloth, a fragment from a larger cloth or a strip never assembled into a larger cloth. It is weft-faced with numerous weft bands of varying width and sequence of imported European cotton dyed green, yellow, light and dark brown, and indigo. The hidden warp is of white cotton. The strip has not been hemmed.
- Production date
- 1902 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 141 centimetres
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Width: 12 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For a complete Sierra Leone cloth with similar weft patterning see Af1952,10.3. The width of the strips in that cloth is about 30cm, whereas this strip is much narrower. The material given by P.Amaury Talbot in 1905 came either from northern Nigeria or from the Liberia/Sierra Leone border. Since no cloth of this type is known from Nigeria, it follows that this strip must come from the Liberian border region.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1905,1209.4