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Keita, Senufo, and others

Decorative Cloth

Senufo, Korhogo, 1966

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Decorative Cloth

Senufo, Korhogo, 1966

Physical Qualities Cotton, black mud dye, 39 15/16 × 67 11/16 in. (101.5 × 172 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Phyllis K. and A. Harvey Schreter, Baltimore
Object Number 1993.195
Strip-woven undyed cotton cloth with painted designs in black representing seven masked dancers, two horned quadrupeds, one bird, and one unidentified object, and a border of two parallel lines filled with zig-zags
Polakoff, Claire, African textiles and dyeing techniques, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982, pp 155-185.

Artist/Maker

Keita

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Culture

Senufo

2000–2000

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Culture

Korhogo

2000–2000

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