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Ewe

Man’s Wrapper

Ewe, 1933

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Ewe

Man’s Wrapper

Ewe, 1933

Physical Qualities Cotton, 186 × 300 cm. (73 1/4 × 118 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Russell L. Wade, Washington, D.C.
Object Number 1999.751
Strip-woven cloth; 20 strips (end strips are of continuous stripes) in yellow (dominant), pink, light green, gray, purple, light blue, black, gold, red, dark blue, dark green
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1999; Jeffrey Hamer, New York
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.229, ill.

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