Toga
Costume
Textile
2003-73-16
From: Sierra Leone
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 2003-73-16 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Technique | Woven | Dyed |
| Description | A large rectangular wrap woven in eighteen 10cm strips; 16 strips have black weft blocks about every 12.5cm; 2 strips have red and yellow brocade stripes in geometric designs; there is a 5cm crocheted border with long fine fringe tied on. |
| Length | 182.9 cm |
| Width | 172.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1985.0.42 - Other Number |
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