Strip woven, with strips sewn together at selvedges; gold, red, green, yellow, pink and pale blue; stripe warp pattern, varied weft patterns and floating weft designs.

Man's Wrapper (adanudo)

Maker Ewe Artist

Dateundated

Place of originGhana, Africa

MediumCotton

Dimensions10 ft. 4 in. x 5 ft. 8 1/2 in. (315 x 174 cm)

ClassificationsTextiles

Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by The Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Acquisition Fund

Object number2010.8.3

Collections

AFRICAN

Visual DescriptionStrip woven, with strips sewn together at selvedges; gold, red, green, yellow, pink and pale blue; stripe warp pattern, varied weft patterns and floating weft designs.

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Strip woven cloth hand sewn at selvedges; red, yellow, tan, green and black; warp and weft patterns, some floating weft designs and openwork. Elaborate warp and weft patterns. Weft patterns include hands, fish and geometric abstract motifs that may be identifiable by experts.

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Ewe Artist

20th century

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20th century

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Bamana Artist

20th century

Multi-colored strip woven cloth with floating weft design.

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Ewe Artist

1944

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Asante Artist

1920-1940

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Malagasy Artist

late 20th century

handwoven narrow strips of cotton, commercial cotton warp (?) handstitched together, weft-faced squares, polychrome (white, black, red, blue, lavender, pale green, blue yellow) form stepped diamond pattern, woven inserts in center of some squares

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20th century

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Asante Artist

20th century

Strip woven cloth with brown warp and weft with gold floating weft patterns: tortoise, lock and chain for securing canoe, snake and saw.

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Igbo Artist

1960s-1970s

Strip woven cloth with gold, black, green, red and white patterns. Double-woven strips, joined at selvedges by hand-stitching

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Samuel Cophie, b. 1939

2009