Object Number | 2003-73-19 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Sierra Leone |
Section | African |
Materials | Grass | Wood |
Technique | Woven | Twisted | Braided | Dyed |
Description | Hammock made of twisted grass fiber dyed brown and black; the spacing of the fibers is held by undyed fiber that has been woven across at 5" (12.7cm) intervals; wooden bar at both ends; undyed fiber tassels attached to hammock by braided grass fiber. |
Length | 180.34 cm |
Width | 63.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1921.2.2 - Other Number |
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