textile
- Museum number
- Am1981,01.4
- Description
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Textile fragment; cotton plain weave ground cloth with camelid fibre supplementary weft patterning, each face showing a pattern of floats that is the negative of the other; bird and geometric eight-pronged motifs with diamond 'eyes' arranged in diamond grid with stepped edge. Border of camelid fibre cross knit loop stitch down one side of multicoloured chevrons. Cream cotton with red, indigos, green, brown and yellow camelid fibre.
- Production date
- 600-900
- Dimensions
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Length: 15 centimetres
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Width: 15.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comparable material: Am1981,01.3.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1981
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1981,01.4
