Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  • Textile (Cote d’Ivoire), 1964

    Panel composed of eight strips sewn side-to-side. An overall checkerboard pattern of deep blue and white is accented with multicolored horizontal stripes and supplementary weft patterns.

  • Wrapper (Ivory Coast), mid-20th century

    Panel formed of eleven narrow strips, each 3 3/4 inches wide, sewn together. Each strip is patterned by a 17 inch section of narrow blue and white stripes alternating with…

  • Skirt (Ivory Coast), late 19th–early 20th century

    A woman’s ceremonial skirt in tubular form made from woven raffia. Patterned by tied resist dying in ocher, red, and dark brown. The main body has four rows of red…

  • Textile, Rallo, 1957

    Ochre warp with blue, purple, mauve, and brown wefts. The top is woven solidly across, but ends in five long tabs at the bottom. An area of wrapping occurs near…

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