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1945.9.89

Specimen of raffia cloth.

1945.9.89

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Collection type
Object
Description
Specimen of raffia cloth.
Long description
Raffia cloth with fringe on three sides, with woven decoration of twelve lack lines of varying thickness. [JU 07/09/2016]
Cultural groups
Kuba
Person
Field collector Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger
PRM source Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1909
Date collected
1907 - 1909
Acquisition information
Donated: 1945
Materials and processes
Material Raffia Leaf Plant, Process Woven
Dimensions
Length: max 970 mm, Width: max 590 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1945.9.89
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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