Object Details
- Series
- 2/8
- Description
- Hot pink, vertically oriented tapestry with a stylized, interior composition that recalls a face in profile with a bird crest. The lips and outlines of the face are black, but these lines continue and branch off to form decorative patterns of diagonal lines and botanical motifs. Additional linear interior patterns are formed with royal blue and white yarns.
- Provenance
- Gift of Embassy of the Republic of Senegal to Africare
- Content Statement
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Omar Talla Wade, Senegal
- Date
- 1981
- Credit Line
- Gift of Africare
- Medium
- Hand woven wool and sisal yarns dyed with commercial dyes
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 145.6 × 116.8 cm (57 5/16 × 46 in.)
- Type
- Textile and Fiber Arts
