Africa Box 2

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Catalog # Name Description
1 1968.10.36 Dress Sleeveless, low round-neck dress with full-pleated skirt. Made of bluish-brown batik-dyed cloth with white checkerboard pattern. Skirt hem with wide dark blue border. Same cloth as 68.10.33. Top of dress lined with "coarse-A all cotton" fabric made in India. Color: BR, WH 1968.10.36 (Dress) image
2 1990.21.19 Shawl Shamma, white with black and white border. 1990.21.19 (Shawl) image
3 1990.21.21 Shawl Shamma, white with green and white weaving along the ends and across the center of the length. 1990.21.21 (Shawl) image
4 1990.21.68 Shawl Orange with black stripes stamped along ends and across the center of the length; a single stripe runs along the sides of the length. 1990.21.68 (Shawl) image
5 1995.31.9 Wrap, clothing Nine strips sown together to form skirt wrap. Hemmed at top & bottom edges. Each strip has same pattern. Outside (warp) edges have narrow bands of white cotton threads, followed by wide band of narrow green and yellow metallic threads in alternating stripes. Then narrow white cotton stripe, wide red metallic band in warp. Weft threads are of black cotton. Color: ML
6 1995.34.4 Wrap, clothing All blue on one side; other side has various symbols and lines.
7 2009.2.73 Shawl A rectangular shawl with two colorful identical strips running short side to short side. Strips of BK/GR/BK/RD/BK/BL repeat with patterns sewn onto that. Majority of patterns include diamonds and zigzag boxes Color: WH/BK/GR/RD/BL
8 2010.17.134 Saddle Bag Moroccan Camel Saddle Bag 2010.17.134 (Saddle Bag) image