Gola and Mende
Blanket/Furnishing Cloth (Kpokpo)
Gola or Mende, 1900
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Cotton, Overall: 170 x 252 cm. (66 15/16 x 99 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Edith Black, Potomac, Maryland, in Memory of Jack Black; Gift of Robert and Mary Cumming, Baltimore; Gift of Joseph B. France, Washington, D.C.; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel L. Hendler; Gift of Gilbert and Jean Jackson, Washington, D.C.; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Jackson, Massapequa, New York; Gift of Norman Jackson, New York; and Gift of the Jamosil Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia
Object Number
1998.480
Blanket in nineteen strips in beige, gray and black; gray step designs and squares with designs in beige areas of double nested step diamonds in black embroidery.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1998; Bruce Bussell, Alexandria, Virginia, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1926-1929 by his parents, Pauline Bussell and Conrad Turner Bussell who was Liberia's Supervisor of Customs and financial advisor to President Charles Dunbar Burgess King
Nichole Bridges, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa," Sept. 25, 2011-Feb. 5, 2012.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.178, ill.
Inscribed: Old masking tape label with number written: L75-16-18.
