cloth
- Museum number
- Af1981,09.6
- Description
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Cloth, a hand-woven (woman’s weave) long rectangular cloth, perhaps used as a waist or shoulder cloth, made of hand-spun white and indigo-dyed cotton and imported European red cotton. The cloth is woven in three strips: a wide central panel and two narrower side panels which share the same design. These have been sewn together along the selvedges. The warp in the central strip is of white cotton through which run lines of indigo; in the side strips there are two wider stripes of indigo, while the remaining areas are white, but appear to be shaded by the inclusion of occasional lines of indigo. The weft is of white cotton, but with four stripes of indigo along both ends. The central panel is decorated with identical and regularly-spaced hour-glass motifs using supplementary threads of indigo and red cotton run over the surface of the cloth (a form of brocading: the threads are held in place by warp threads, and the pattern is barely visible on the back of the cloth); the two outer strips also have along their outer edges a different, but parallel, series of motifs in indigo and red cotton. The warp ends have been twisted to form tassels.
- Production date
- 1870-1880 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 137 centimetres
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Width: 72 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- Af1981,09.6
