blanket;
kaasa landaka
- Museum number
- Af1979,01.4817
- Description
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Blanket (kaasa landaka) composed of six narrow strips of hand plain woven wool hand sewn together selvedge to selvedge. Each strip consists of natural coloured woollen warps and black, brown and natural coloured woollen wefts. This combination of warps and wefts is used to create two brown weft blocks which are used to divide the cloth into three.The central section is decorated with a series of repeating geometric patterns in dyed brown, black and yellow wool. In the further two sections there are a series of black weft stripes. Each warp edge of the cloth is edged with a length of twisted brown wool. The warps have been over sewn, plaited and knotted to create tassels.
- Production date
- 1990
- Dimensions
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Length: 262 centimetres (including tassels)
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Width: 136 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Used by herders for warmth and protection from mosquitoes.
Af1979,01.4817 is recorded as having been purchased from Jeff Kerzner, in which case it forms part of the group of six cloths registered as Af1990,12.1 to 6. It was not, however, registered at the time, and was probably put aside as a duplicate for possible exchange since it is close to the first cloth in that group. When it registered later it was put in the group of objects with no provenance and given an impossible1979 date number! It is not recorded on the manuscript list of cloths supplied by Kerzner.
For comment on the cloth see the notes on the similar Af1990,12.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1979,01.4817