What: Cloth hanging from a church, taken by by Maj-Gen. Griffiths

Where: The British Museum, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG

The catalogue entry describes it as a “woven hanging cloth (from Christian church)” 

See correspondence with vendor and notes by John Picton, currently filed in office with Africa collections storage at Orsman Road. (AMD,5/1998).

Acquisition notes:
“Purchased from: Miss G F Martin in 1973
Obtained by Maj-Gen. Griffiths (grandfather of vendor) at Magdala, 1868. Said to have been previously acquired by King Theodore of Abyssinia from elsewhere.”

Exhibited:
1995-96, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 4), ‘Secular and Sacred’

Detail
Museum number: Af1973,38.1