Saddle bag for camel.

Collection type: Object
Description: Saddle bag for camel.
Long description: Saddle bag for camel. Sub rectangular, the base end tapering from pointed corners to a central fringe. There are additional fringes at the two upper corners and two lower corners where there are additional rectangular leather pieces, overwoven with multicoloured strips of leather. All fringes are of multi coloured leather strips, some painted with horizontal lines. One side of the bag is decorated with red cutwork leather panels with additional tooled decoration; formed of a central diamond and triangles in the four corners and an additional semi circular leather panel at the opening with painted and tooled decoration. The opposite side of the bag is decorated with four red decorated leather panels. [BS [OPS move] 18/10/2017]
Geographical reference: Mali
Africa > Western Africa > Mali
Person: Field collector Samuel Peach Powell; PRM source Samuel Peach Powell
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1940
Date collected: By 1940
Acquisition information: Loaned: 1940
Materials and processes: Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Decorated, Process Stitched, Process Dyed, Process Cutwork, Process Painted, Process Tooled
Dimensions: Length 1850 mm approx, Depth: max 80 mm, Width 690 mm approx
Object numbers: Accession number: 1940.7.0241