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Vai and Mende

Blanket/Furnishing Cloth (Kpokpo)

Vai or Mende, 1900-1927

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Blanket/Furnishing Cloth (Kpokpo)

Vai or Mende, 1900-1927

Physical Qualities Cotton, Overall: 151 x 310 cm. (59 7/16 x 122 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from the Maurice and Florence A. Caplan Collection
Object Number 1998.483
Blanket in eight strips in white and dark blue stripes with one stripe of long triangular designs in center.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1926-1928.

Inscribed: Old masking tape label with number written: L75-16-14. Removed May 2009 and stored in curatorial file.

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