Belt

Textile

2003-64-4

From: North Africa

Curatorial Section: African

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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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