Object Number: Eb976

Collection: World Cultures

Object Name: Clothing

Description: Manta, shawl or carrying cloth, two webs sewn together across the centre. Handwoven on a vertical or horizontal ground loom. Each web with a striped band at each end in natural, reds, pinks and yellow. At the end, wide and narrow plain bands in pink and yellow, at the centre a wide band of warp-faced birds and bats in pink on brown ground. Rest of the manta plain brown. Two webs joined by a rand using lengths of different coloured yarns. The bands all outlined with a handsewn zig-zag in cream yarn.