FMNH 222017.nosub[1]

  • 222017 cloth
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Chicago Natural History Museum-Ethnology | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 22-54 | Provenience: West Africa, Sierra Leone, Freetown | People or Culture: Temne | Object: HAND-DYED CLOTH | Material: Cotton damask | Description: Lappa is designed with two distinct stamped candled patterns and dyed in blue and brown. Main pattern stamp is 14 cm. square, showing four leaves and tendrils. Wax is crackled to permit veins of brown and blue. Border is approximately 15 cm. wide with a geometric stamped design, green on brown. Unhemmed. [Contemporary African Arts exhibit at FM and traveling (Sec. V #14), 1974-1975.] Mrs. Kadiato Kamara. | Dimensions (in cm.): 178 x 127 | Collection: Collected by Maude Wahlman, April 1973. | [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 222017 | Field No. | Neg. No. | Acc. 3246 |
Catalog Number: 222017.nosub[1]
Description: cloth
Materials: cotton damask
Cultural Attribution: Temne
Accession Number: [3246] Peace Corps (Purchase)
Accession Year:
City/Town: Freetown
Collector/Source: Peace Corps, Maude S. Wahlman
EMu IRN: 1128155
GUID: ca764439-f051-45f9-92bb-68c72d47698e

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