cloth
- Museum number
- Af1998,01.69
- Description
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Woman's wrap-around cloth (maharma qutun) made of silk and cotton. Rectangular cloth has natural-coloured cotton warp and weft with supplementary weft-faced stripes in dark green and dark pink silk at either end. Immediately before the top and bottom edges are bands with warp threads only.
- Production date
- 1998
- Dimensions
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Length: 195 centimetres
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Width: 72 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Eth.Doc.362. This type of cloth is used by women when mourning. It is used at funerals to identify members of the immediate family.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1998
- Acquisition notes
- This fieldwork collection was purchased, together with Af1998,02-03, using BP (British Petroleum) sponsorship in February-March 1998. This mourning cloth was purchased new from a weaving workshop in Mahdia, owned by Karim al-Arousse, on 5.3.1998 for 65 TD (Tunisian Dinar).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1998,01.69
