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Summary
: T/GAMB/085
: British Empire & Commonwealth
: textiles
: Indigo dyed cloth, hand-woven narrow strip, 120mm wide, hand sewn together into large wrapper. Heavy cotton with black stripe, dyed in indigo. One side is dark blue with a darker stripe, other side is pale blue with black stripe. Paper label 'From the Colonial and Indian Collections of the Imperial Institute, London, SW7'. Old card label 'Gambia 1 Joloff self-dyed pagne Upper Badiban Riv. Gambia 292'. Cloth label 'Gambia Joloff pagn Self-dyed Upper Badiba 292'
Current Location
: Commonwealth Institute Collection
: Gambia, West Africa, Africa: Transferred from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, 2012