Wrapper
Gallery Location
Not on View
Medium
Spun silk tabby with in-woven beads
Geography
Highlands of Madagascar
Date
c. 1860
Dimensions
262 x 160 cm
Object number
947.1.6
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A.D. Crooks
Department
Art & Culture: Global Fashion & Textiles
Bibliography
This is a rare example of the mandiavola ("covered in silver"). The wrapper features rows of discontinuous motifs in woven-in silver metallic beads across the surface. Shapes include humans, lozenges, scissors and geometric forms. There are continuous bands of metallic beads, as well as knotted fringe of brick-red loops along the two ends.
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