from bark of the Mutuba tree ("ficus natalensis"), one piece, of especially soft and handy texture, dyed in reddish brown and painted in black, decor in two rectangular compartments, each framed by jagged border and filled with triangular patterns in concentrical lines, original repairs: three patches replacing damaged parts/fine sewn cuts in various places, minor missing parts, especially thin, slightly brittle structure in one area, slight differences in colour
M: 296 cm x 213 cm, M: 116,5 inch x 83,9 inch
Lit.: Meyer, Hans, Die Barundi, Leipzig 1916, plate 37, ill. 2
Continent: Africa

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