Object Details
- Label Text
- The magenta stripes in this cloth are a combination of cotton and imported silk. Warp Stripes dominate the design, but the use of subtle checks creates variety.
- Description
- Wrapper (probably a woman's) composed of eighteen panels handsewn at the selvedges in an overall parallel striped pattern with subtle checks in dark blue, light blue, white and dark red.
- Provenance
- Nana Afua Babe, Ghana, -- to 1971
- Venice and Alastair Lamb, England, purchased in Bonwire, Ghana, 1971 to 1985
- Exhibition History
- Patterns of Life: West African Strip-Weaving Traditions, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., September 28, 1987-February 29, 1988
- Published References
- Gilfoy, Peggy. 1987. Patterns of Life: West African Strip Weaving Traditions. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, p. 67, no. 16.
- Lamb, Venice. 1975. West African Weaving. London: Duckworth, p. 117, no. c.
- Lamb, Venice and Alastair. 1975. West African Narrow Strip Weaving. Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, p. 45, no. 53.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Asante artist
- Credit Line
- National Museum of African Art, National Museum of Natural History, purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, 1983-85, EJ10576
- Medium
- Cotton, silk, indigo dye, natural dye
- Dimensions
- H x W: 234.9 x 152.4 cm (92 1/2 x 60 in.)
- Type
- Textile and Fiber Arts
