textile
- Museum number
- Am1934,0714.6.a
- Description
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Textile fragment; red plain weave ground cloth visible as border along two edges; embroidered; fringed along one edge; cross-knit loop stitching along fringed edge; depicts a seated zoomorphic figure with numerous appendages terminating in trophy heads with flowing hair; background features linear geometric patterning; black with gold.
- Production date
- 1-500
- Dimensions
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Length: 23 centimetres (+4.5cm fringe)
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Width: 32 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1934
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by Henry van den Bergh through the National Art Collections Fund. NACF noted in Ethnography Donors Book but not in Register.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1934,0714.6.a