Mende
Blanket
Mende, 1933-1966
Scroll
Mende
Blanket
Mende, 1933-1966
Physical Qualities
Cotton, indigo dye, 144 x 360 cm. (56 11/16 x 141 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Nancy Schilling, Arbutus, Maryland
Object Number
2002.627
Woven in eight strips, with checkerboard pattern in indigo and white with horizontal indigo stripes at either end.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2002; Nancy Schilling, Arbutus, MD; ex her sister-in-law, Hilda (Schilling) Silver (died 1985), Arbutus, MD; ex her sister-in-law, Dr. Mabel Irene Silver, O.B.E. (died c. 1972, on Easter day, at age 70), Baltimore, MD (Missionary doctor for the United Brethren Church in Rotifunk, Sierra Leone, 1932 to 1962, at the Hatfield-Archer Hospital; residence at death: 524 North Charles Street, Baltimore)
Inscribed: '32-2125' on cloth tab.
