Production
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1940 - 1991
kente | Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Cloth
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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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Ewe
- Object type
- Tuch
- Dimensions
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Width: 1970.0 mm
Length: 4220.0 mm - Material/Technique
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Cotton fabric, Web work
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- I/2972
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of legal title:
Purchase-
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1992
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Africa (location/origin)Togo (location/origin)
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC0 1.0 DEED
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