cloth
- Museum number
- Af1981,09.9
- 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-dyed cotton and imported European red cotton yarn. The warp has a background of white cotton, with lines of indigo and red cotton of varying width and arrangement forming a pattern along the cloth. The weft is also primarily of white cotton, but run through it are lines of indigo that form a ‘hidden’ pattern across the cloth. There are in addition four irregularly positioned areas of open-work, where holes have been created by binding the warp threads together. There is no use of supplementary weft. The warp ends have been twisted to form long tassels.
- Production date
- 1870-1880 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 207 centimetres
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Width: 39 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
- Af1981,09.9
