Gola, Vai, and others
Blanket/Furnishing Cloth (Kpokpo)
Gola, Vai or Mende, 1900-1927
Scroll
Blanket/Furnishing Cloth (Kpokpo)
Gola, Vai or Mende, 1900-1927
Physical Qualities
Cotton, Overall: 149 x 220 cm. (58 11/16 x 86 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Maria N. and E. Dee Lippincott; Gift of Robert and Emily Miller Rody; Gift of A. Harvey and Phyllis K. Schreter; Gift of Alan and June Swan; Gift of Mrs. Daniel Willard, Jr.; and Bequest of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1998.481
Blanket in seventeen strips with central two gray nested squares surrounded by diagonal lines of gray blocks with a border of gray on a beige ground; one central black and beige design in supplementary weft, and two six-sided designs in black and beige in supplementary weft on either side.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1926-1928.
Inscribed: Old masking tape label with number written: L75-16-17.
