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品名（中）	缓存-性别
品名（英）	Cache-Sexe
入馆年号	1998年，1998.478.5
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1100 - 公元 1200
创作地区	马里（Mali）
分类	篮子服装（Basketry-Costumes）
尺寸	高 3 1/4 × 宽 6 × 深1 英寸 (8.3 × 15.2 × 2.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个精心制作的物品是一组罕见的女性"谦虚裙子"的一部分，这些裙子被认为被穿在臀部的低处，并用纤维绳固定到位。这些纤维裙通常被称为"cache-sexe"，是西非热带气候中最古老的纤维裙。这个例子的显着保存状态是由于发现它的洞穴的有利气候条件。这些洞穴位于今马里的班迪亚加拉悬崖内，作为古代泰勒姆人的家园具有历史意义，这个物体归功于他们，后来是多贡人。据信，泰勒姆人在十一世纪的某个时候到达了班迪亚加拉悬崖，并一直留在那里，直到他们的人口在十五至十六世纪遭到破坏。这种缓存性别由三个相互连接的层组成，由电镀和缠绕技术的复杂组合构成。这些制造方法与用于制造网、圈套和篮子的技术密切相关。研究人员认为，用于制作这种服装的绳索来自猴面包树的内部树皮。像这样的古代服装是当地开发的，而不是进口的，这与服装最初是通过伊斯兰贸易的扩张引入撒哈拉以南非洲的神话相矛盾。虽然今天，纤维缓存性别几乎完全消失了，但使用类似技术的传统在西非幸存到二十世纪。最近的例子中纤维和技术的相似质量表明，这种形式的服装曾经在西非广泛分布。
介绍（英）	This carefully crafted object is part of a rare group of female "modesty skirts," which are thought to have been worn low on the hips and held in place with a fiber cord. Commonly called a "cache-sexe," these fiber skirts are the oldest of their type to have survived the tropical climate of West Africa. The remarkable state of preservation of this example is due to the favorable climatic conditions of the cave in which it was found. Located within the Bandiagara Escarpment of present-day Mali, these caves are historically significant as the home of the ancient Tellem people, to whom this object is attributed, and later the Dogon. The Tellem are believed to have arrived at the Bandiagara Escarpment some time during the eleventh century and remained there until their population was devastated in the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries. This cache-sexe consists of three interconnected layers and is constructed from a sophisticated combination of plating and twining techniques. These fabrication methods are closely related to techniques that were used to construct nets, snares, and baskets. Researchers believe that the cordage used to create this garment comes from the inner bark of the baobab tree. Locally developed rather than imported, ancient garments like this one sharply contradict the myth that clothing was first introduced to sub-Saharan Africa through the expansion of Islamic trade. Although today, fiber cache-sexes have almost entirely disappeared, traditions using similar techniques survived in West Africa into the twentieth century. The similar quality of fiber and technique of more recent examples suggest that this form of clothing was once widely distributed in West Africa.