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Akan and Asante

Adinkra Cloth

Akan, 1929-1938

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Adinkra Cloth

Akan, 1929-1938

Physical Qualities Cotton and possibly silk, 131 x 84 in. (332.7 x 213.4 cm.)
Credit Line Art Acquisition Fund
Object Number 2011.152
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2012; Albert Nuamah, Detroit
Akan Regalia

Narrative Wisdom and African Arts
Prussin, Labelle. Hatumere: Islamic Design in West Africa. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986: 239-243.

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Akan

2000–2000

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Asante

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