Textile
Pile Cloth
AF1670
From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF1670 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Dumbi | Dumba (uncertain) |
| Provenience | Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber |
| Technique | Embroidered |
| Description | Pile cloth. Ground color is a faded black with white geometric embroidery on three-quarters of the piece. Darkening of left side and right corners. dogearing of top left corner and top right corner. Delaminaton of fiber in center and right portions. Shrinking and warping of cloth. |
| Length | 64.5 cm |
| Width | 13 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 305 - Field No SF |
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