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A strip woven cloth with green, yellow and red.
Man's cloth (kente)
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Man's cloth (kente)

Maker Akan Artist
Date1950-1960s
Place of originGhana, Africa
PurchasedGhana, Africa
MediumRayon
Dimensions10 ft. 8 in. x 6 ft. 9 in. (325.1 x 205.7 cm)
ClassificationsTextiles
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Rodney D. McGalliard
Object number2005.2.2
Collections
Visual DescriptionA strip woven cloth with green, yellow and red.
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
A tightly woven cloth; strips sewn together by hand; colors include green, gold, burgundy and black.
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Asante Artist
1950-1960s
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Asante Artist
1920-1940
Cloth with white warp and weft, plainweave, appliqued patterns based on adinkra symbols; stool, cutlass, Sankofa Bird, Green, red and purple appliques.
Man's Cloth with Adinkra Motifs (kente)
Samuel Cophie, b. 1939
2009
19 panels, all hand sewn. Medium wieght all cotton cloth with orange/gold rayon overshot yarn to fabricate the kola nut leaf motifs. Ten yarn colors were used, in addition to the overshot, with colored warps and wefts creating an additional secondary palette of colors.
Man's Cloth (adanudo)
Ewe Artist
1940s
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
Man's Cloth (kente)
Man's Cloth (kente)
Asante Artist
20th century
Wide strip woven cloth with burgundy, black, blue, white and green floating weft; Ikat strips in center with blue and white dyed threads
Akwete cloth
Igbo Artist
1965-1967
Strip woven cloth with brown warp and weft with gold floating weft patterns: tortoise, lock and chain for securing canoe, snake and saw.
Akwete cloth
Igbo Artist
1960s-1970s
Stripwoven cloth, sewn at selvedges, red, green and gold, 11 weft designs, one warp design
Woven Wrapper (kente)
Asante Artist
20th century
Navy and gray stripe with overshot color bands, 22 strip-woven panels hand-sewn together. Warp and weft threads dyes in 10 colors.
Man's Cloth (adanudo)
Ewe Artist
20th century
Tunic is tailored, with a scoop neck and short sleeves, fitted at waist then flares to the hips. It is constructed from kente cloth, which is strip-woven with gold, blue, red and green yarns. Strips are sewn together at selvedges.
Kente kaba
Juliana Kweifio-Okai
Late 1960s

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