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Blanket

Mende, Mid-20th century

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Mende

Blanket

Mende, Mid-20th century

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
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.

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