cloth
- Museum number
- Af1981,09.8
- Description
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Cloth, a single hand-woven long rectangular panel (woman’s weave), perhaps a waist or shoulder cloth, made of hand-spun white and indigo cotton and imported European red cotton yarn. The warp is composed of seven colour bands of equal width: four are made up of alternating indigo and white threads, and these flank three bands of white through which run three evenly-spaced lines of red. The weft is entirely white, with the exception of regular lines of red which create a chequerboard pattern when crossing the lines of red in the warp. There is no use of supplementary weft, with the result that this cloth has a much plainer aspect than the others in this group. The warp ends have been twisted to form long tassels.
- Production date
- 1870-1880 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 140 centimetres
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Width: 37 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
- Af1981,09.8
