Cushion, leather cover filled with string fibre. The leather is orange in colour, decorated in various shapes on the top, made of pieces of leather sewn on to the cover with white on black leather thongs. Two rows of fringes, one yellow the other orange, encircle the top part of the cover; and there is a loop of leather to hang the cushion up by. There is a slit on the lowerside for putting in the filling.
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