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Asante Ghanaian, Ghana Bonwire

Wrapper, early 1900s

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Asante

Title

Wrapper

Year

early 1900s

Medium

silk

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silk

Techniques

  • supplementary weft patterning

Dimensions

299.7 cm (118 inches) (length)

Place

Ghana; Bonwire

Type

  • Fashion,
  • Costume

Credit

Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

81.096

Projects & Publications

Publications

A World of Costume and Textiles

A Handbook of the Collection

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

A World of Costume and Textiles

September 22 - November 12, 1989

A Decade of Collecting (Costume and Textiles)

July 17 - September 6, 1987

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 Wrapper with the accession number of 81.096. 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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