Mat or wall decoration

Museum number:
5-16917
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Alternate number:
5-16915 and 5-16915a
Accession number:
Acc.4748
Description:
Small, woven mat or wall decoration formed from small sticks woven with twine in a zig-zag and triangular pattern in black, orange, yellow, tan. Left half of the lower edge extends 2.5 cm below the right half and is partially fringed. Originally bound along each side with fabric, now mostly worn away.
Donor:
Robert I. Orlins
Collection place:
Al Junaynah, Western Darfur state, Sudan
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Sudan, Gineina Village
Culture or time period:
Nubian
Collector:
Robert I. Orlins
Collection date:
1964-1965
Materials:
Paint (coating) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mats (floor coverings)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
February 8, 2005
Context of use:
Decorative
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 12.5 centimeters, depth 0.7 centimeters, and length 39.3 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mat or wall decoration, accession number 5-16917, described as Small, woven mat or wall decoration formed from small sticks woven with twine in a zig-zag and triangular pattern in black, orange, yellow, tan. Left half of the lower edge extends 2.5 cm below the right half and is partially fringed. Originally bound along each side with fabric, now mostly worn away.

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