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Dull green on buff and dull green stripe.
Textile - Brocade men's weave
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Textile - Brocade men's weave

Maker Mende Artist
Date20th century
Place of originSierra Leone, Africa
MediumCotton
Dimensions6 ft. 8 in. x 51 in. (203.2 x 129.5 cm)
ClassificationsTextiles
Credit LineMuseum collection, University Gallery purchase
Object numberT-82-136
Collections
Visual DescriptionDull green on buff and dull green stripe.
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An off-white print featuring the poem "Another August" By James Merrill in orange text on the left. Beside it is a soft, sweeping sketch of tall trees and a tiny figure on a path, rendered in pale blue, green, and brown. The poem reads: Pines. The white, ochre-pocked houses. Sky unflawed. Upon so much former strangeness a calm settles, glaze of custom to be neither shattered nor shattered by. Home. Home at last. Years past—blind, tattering wind, hail, tears—my head was in those clouds that now…
Another August
George Lockwood
1968

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