Mule cloth, of blue velvet embroidered in red white green and yellow silks. Lined with printed cotton, edges bound with green silk.

Collection type: Object
Description: Mule cloth, of blue velvet embroidered in red white green and yellow silks. Lined with printed cotton, edges bound with green silk.
Geographical reference: Ethiopia
Africa > Eastern Africa > Ethiopia
Person: Field collector Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger; PRM source Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1909-1914
Date collected: ?1909-1914
Acquisition information: Donated: 1945
Materials and processes: Material Velvet Textile, Material Silk Textile Animal, Material Cotton Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Embroidered, Process Printed, Process Woven
Dimensions: Length: max 1780 mm, Width: max 570 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1945.9.44
Research and responses: For a brief account of the collections donated to the PRM by Wilfred Thiesiger, see 'An Incidental Collection: Objects Donated by Wilfred Thesiger to the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Jeremy Coote, in Wilfred Thesiger in Africa, edited by Christopher Morton and Philip N. Grover (London: Harper Press, 2010), pp. 116-26. [JC 21 12 2010]

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