cloth;
skirt(?)
- Museum number
- Af1995,01.1
- Description
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Textile woven from pineapple fibre cloth (resembles raffia?) possibly used as a skirt (?); fridges on two sides. Raised black-blue conventional stitching made from cotton fibres create a border on two longer sides. The textile has a vertical linear pattern naturally created through the woven structure of the base. Dark blue cotton fibres are woven in to create a pattern of horizontal stripes of various widths. Damage on the fold.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 170 centimetres (excluding fringes)
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Width: 56 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Transfered from British Library (Oriental and India Office Collections); no original acquisition details/documentation known by them; (information following OIOC contact by J.Hudson, /1996). Possibly from the old India Office collection and pre-1850.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair, split and damaged fibres.
- Acquisition date
- 1995
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Collections of the Oriental and India Office in the British Library
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1995,01.1