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  • Strip (Ghana), mid- 20th century

    Narrow woven strip with bands of striped and stepped patterns, in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with weft-faced plain weave…

  • Strip (Ghana), mid- 20th century

    Narrow woven strip with bands of striped, stepped and zig-zag patterns, in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with weft-faced plain…

  • Strip (Ghana), mid- 20th century

    Narrow woven strip with bands of pattern in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with weft-faced plain weave on grouped warps,…

  • Strip, Kente cloth, mid- 20th century

    Narrow woven strip with bands of pattern in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with weft-faced plain weave on grouped warps,…

  • Sidewall, Alice in Wonderland, 1930

    Children’s paper showing characters from “Alice in Wonderland” and vignettes in bright multicolor, especially yellow. Printed in colors on cream ground. Printed in selvedge: “(thistle) Thomas Strahan Co. Made In…

  • Dinner Knife (USA), 1978

    Serpentine outline, hollow stylized pistol-grip handle with two slots for the fork and spoon. Vertical division between the slots flaring to form an asymmetrical upcurved bulbous demi-lune shaped blade.

  • Poster, Manpower Temporary Services, 1979

    On a black ground, silhouette of two hands in white with black dots; fingers in different colors with keyboard keys at the fingertips.

  • Elsinore Dinner Knife, 1980

    Integral handle and blade with tapering rounded tip. Waisted neck flaring into rectangular cushion-form handle with slightly tapering, upturned blunt terminal.

  • Signature Collection: Picnic Flatware Dinner Knife, 1986

    Flat rectangular aluminum handle with brushed surface, adonized green. Rectangular blade adonized purple with rounded outer point and bevelled cutting edge. Blade affixed to handle side with three silver rivets.

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