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date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Long narrow band made from two shorter pieces stitched together. All natural raffia color, in a creamy tone. Three pattern areas of geometric interlacing of alternating bands of textured pile embroidery and stem-stitch embroidery. The areas are separated by solid bars of pile. Long edges are hemmed, with decorative buttonhole stitch along one long edge.
place: label: made in
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-110-9
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Border
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: raffia Technique: plain weave embroidered with stem and pile stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 129.5 x 8.9 cm (51 x 3 1/2 in.)