cloth
- Museum number
- Af1981,09.13
- Description
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Cloth, a single hand-woven long rectangular panel, perhaps a waist or shoulder cloth, made of hand-spun white and indigo-dyed cotton and imported European red cotton yarn. The warp is of white cotton, with wide bands of mixed red and blue along both sides. The weft is also primarily of white cotton, but is replaced by stripes of indigo and red in seven bands; these create a ‘hidden’ weft pattern across the cloth. There are four lines of open-work, and two areas where patterns are formed by lines of blue and red supplementary weft. The warp ends have been gathered together with stitching and are narrower than the rest of the cloth; the warp ends have been left as a fringe.
- Production date
- 1870-1880 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 116 centimetres
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Width: 22 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair; stained in many places, small (1 cm) hole near one edge.
- Acquisition date
- 1981
- Acquisition notes
- See Af1981,09.1 for comment on the collection, and its provenance and dating.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1981,09.13
