Blanket
North African, 1900
Scroll
Blanket
North African, 1900
Physical Qualities
Wool, 243 L x 154 W cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number
1998.487
Blanket woven on broad loom in one piece with pattern of short and long dashes in maroon and blue with two broad bands of dark red bordered in gray and orange and a top and bottom border in bands of orange, gray, maroon and white; selvage ends with continuous design of step triangles and denticular pattern.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1923-1929 by the parents of donor (Bruce Bussell): Conrad Turner Bussell and Pauline Bussell. Mr. Bussell was sent by the U.S. Government under President Calvin Coolidge to survey the boundaries of Liberia. He was, instead, made Supervisor of Customs by President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia, and later made Financial Advisor to President King. Mrs. Bussell arrived in 1926.
Nichole Bridges, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa," Sept. 25, 2011-Feb. 5, 2012.
Inscribed: Old masking tape label with number written: L75-16-9.
