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Mud Cloth
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Mud Cloth

Maker Unknown, Bamana (Bambara)
MediumCloth
Dimensions63 1/2” L x 38 1/2” W
Credit LineGift of the Herman Copen Trust
Object numberAF2002.1449.COP
DescriptionMud cloth composed of eight hand woven strips, each 5” wide, hand sewn together. Small fringe on top and bottom. Repeat design of bands of rectangles with dense crisscross lines and bands of rectangles segmented into four smaller squares with X’s forming diamonds. At one end some of the rectangles are framed with zigzag lines, and there are two rectangles each containing two rows of parallel lines.
ClassificationsTextiles
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Unknown, Bamana (Bambara)
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Unknown, Bamana (Bambara)
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