tent-cloth
- Museum number
- Af1979,10.1.a
- Description
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Appliqué tent-panel; composed of heavy canvas basecloth of natural-coloured cotton with blue-dyed stripe, decorative design appliqued to basecloth in multicoloured cotton cloth. Central design of oppposing lions chained to stylised tree at top of doorway. Above is inscription in Arabic. Flanked by floral motifs and geometric designs.
- Production date
- 1920-1928 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 260 centimetres
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Width: 170 centimetres
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres
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- Location
- On display (Room 25 - Africa, Display Case 10)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1995, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 5), 'Display and Modesty'
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Acquisition notes
- Af1979,10.1.a to d are four cloths with appliqué decorations, all parts of a single tent purchased by Mrs Massey Stewart while travelling in Egypt and Sudan between 1924-1928, and acquired in the Cairo suq (market).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1979,10.1.a
