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Mud Cloth

Maker Unknown, Bamana (Bambara)

MediumCloth

Dimensions74” L x 39 1/2” W

Credit LineGift of the Herman Copen Trust

Object numberAF2002.1457.COP

DescriptionMud cloth composed of eight hand woven strips, each 5” wide, hand sewn together. Small fringe on top and bottom. Alternating pattern of squares filled with cross-crossed lines and squares divided into four smaller squares each segmented with an X forming a large diamond, with occasional exceptions in which the patterns do not alternate but appear next to and above one another. One end of the textile has a border of rectangles hatched with diagonal lines.

ClassificationsTextiles

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Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

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