textile: 2 panels formed lengthwise. commercial hacquared woven fabric with printed white flowers on a yellow-brown ground. overdied with indigo stripes and white end borders. looped black thread fringe attached to each end. Seller Alihamadu Konteh. technique: Cotton? kola & gara (indigo) over 'flower' candle stamp with taka overdye and gara borders on 'Chysanthemum briyons. Cloud background
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Sierra Leone
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa, Sierra Leone; Koindu market
Collection date:
1971-1975
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 108 centimeters and length 161.5 centimeters
Comment:
Notation on Bascom Collection card: Notebook: 1549; 1707.