A FINE MOUNTED NDOP COTTON TEXTILE, BAMILEKE TRIBE CAMEROON ( No 2391)

A large mounted, finely decorated  Ndop, strip weave fabric from Cameroon, West Africa.  Made of thick cotton.  Dyed with indigo using a resist dye process.  Has a particularly large and spacial design.  Women artisans stitch in the geometrical resist design in raphia thread, which is then dipped in indigo. Mounted on a thin wooden stretcher frame.  In good original condition with wear.  Height  approx 120 x 90cm