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Sumptuously woven cotton fabric featuring an array of colours – black, white, green, yellow, red, orange and blue. It is an example of narrow strip weaving using the Kente technique. Narrow strip weaving is typical for West Africa and is performed exclusively by men.

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Museen Freiburg
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Cultural attribution
Ewe
Object type
Tuch
Dimensions
Width: 1970.0 mm
Length: 4220.0 mm
Material/Technique
Cotton fabric, Web work
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
I/2972

Provenance and sources

Production
when
1940 - 1991
Change of legal title:
Purchase
when
1992
Change of physical control or legal title
where
Africa (location/origin)
Togo (location/origin)
who
Krieg, Karl H. - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa

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CC0 1.0 DEED

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