Vai and Mende
Blanket/Furnishing Cloth (Kpokpo)
Vai or Mende, 1900
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 124 x 270 cm. (48 13/16 x 106 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Maurice and Florence A. Caplan Collection
Object Number
1998.482
Blanket in nine strips in beige, black and red with alternating black and beige squares with varying designs of stripes and elongated triangles; border at top and bottom with six black and red stripes.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1926-1928.
Nichole Bridges, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa," Sept. 25, 2011-Feb. 5, 2012.
Inscribed: Old masking tape label with number written: L75-16-13.
