Textile
37-22-58
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-58 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Krim |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | The ground is of the natural colour of the fibre, dark with lighter stripes. The cloth is divided into panels by transverse bands of a reticulated pattern of hexagonal elements outlined in black [on the reverse in the natural colour of the yarn]. The panels bear lozenges composed of nine elements outlined in black. The black dye is European. |
| Length | 202 cm |
| Width | 128 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 55 - Collector Number |
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