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Gola, Vai, and others

Blanket/Furnishing Cloth (Kpokpo)

Gola, Vai or Mende, 1900-1927

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Blanket/Furnishing Cloth (Kpokpo)

Gola, Vai or Mende, 1900-1927

Physical Qualities Cotton, 187 L x 152 W cm.
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from the Maurice and Florence A. Caplan Collection
Object Number 1998.479
Blanket of seventeen strips; in gray and beige; center rectangle surrounded by four nested squares; top and bottom each with two irregular blocks.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1926-1928.

Inscribed: Old masking tape label with number written: L75-16-16.

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Gola

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Vai

2000–2000

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Mende

2000–2000

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