Object Number | 2003-64-4 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | North Africa |
Section | African |
Materials | Silk | Metal | Wire |
Technique | Woven | Dyed | Sewn | Braided | Embroidered |
Description | Rectanglar belt woven in two pieces, joined end to end, orange, purple, and white silk and orange metal wire wrapped in silk in a brocade pattern; orange silk cloth sewn to back as a lining; 19 1/2 inch (49.5 cm) braided finge at both ends; embroidery along both sides, covering the edge; blue beads on the tassels at the ends of the fringes. |
Length | 274.8 cm |
Width | 14.6 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1912.2.3 - Other Number |
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