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  • Collection: African Art

Two bands of pattern woven cloth sewn together @ 15 warp threads per inch, white ground with black pattern.

Mossi cotton cloth, 5.5" bands off white with black and indigo pattern work.

Shirt made of handwoven cotton cloth in black, white, red and blue; has what appears to be machine-stitching in orange thread around the collar.

Shirt made of handwoven cotton cloth; has a simple, t-shaped design, and is stitched together from vertical stripes of cloth.

Hand woven cotton cloth robes (2) with embroidery.

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Cotton robe in blue, black and white striped fabric; fashioned from a single sheet of fabric, folded in half and open at the sides; has embroidery in an off-white thread around the area of the collar, where an extra piece of fabric is attached,…

Large cotton weaving made up of four long, thin strips of striped cloth. Polychrome in bold striping. Yellow warp threads makes a fringe at either end. In three bands of color, there are interwoven modified diamond designs.

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Kuba Lid and bottom with peaked lids of nearly equal height encircled by central raised extension. Raised herringbone weave on lid and base; hole in top.

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Squat horizontal shape, blocky legs; kneeling figure one end; creature with spiraled cone form (tail?) in mouth. Fanciful imagery; appears worked to suggest age, use.
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