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Image

African, Ghana

Shawl, ca. 1910

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

African

Title

Shawl

Year

ca. 1910

Medium

cotton

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • cotton

Techniques

  • supplementary weft patterning

Dimensions

243.8 cm (96 inches) (length)

Place

Ghana

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Gift of Elizabeth McConnell

Object Number

54.201

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

A World of Costume and Textiles

September 22 - November 12, 1989

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Shawl with the accession number of 54.201. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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