"Kikoy" fabric sample; for the African market; Consular Collection; 1917
date: label: date made
content: 1917
notes: label: Description
content: Textile Sample: Unfinished Kikoy - Paper label reads, “No. 15, Kikoi (or Kikoy) size 38 X 72” and 46 X 76. Made up in pairs. Packed 12 ½ scores or 250 to a bale. Different colors on the ends. About 3,600 bales a year". 2nd label, “American Consulate at Mombasa, B.E.A. Trade opportunity No. 150 of July 26, 1917. Sample No. 15- Kikoy or Kikoi". Colored plain weave, Yellow, Blue, White, Red. Unfinished at the end, possibly for fringe. Some portions lack yellow or blue heavily woven in. Eleven cm unwoven section at one end. In some areas crossed stripes form a plaid pattern.
label: Description
content: An envelope found with the Mombasa textile group reads: "Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington. 93881 (1917), Mombasa Textiles Brit. Manuf. CR 260 1917 FTO25764" (or FTO625764?) This is the Consular Report associated with this textile sample. At the time of this correspondence, Mombasa was in British East Africa.
label: Description
content: Consular Collection: Part of collection of samples acquired by US Consuls overseas between about 1898 and 1918, in the interests of promoting US trade and business opportunities; which was transferred by the Dept. of Commerce in the 1920s-30s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Consular Collection Textile Samples
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from the Department of Commerce
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN80514V11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 54 cm x 44 cm; 21 1/4 in x 17 5/16 in