Cloth ("Couvetures du Segou") | Yale University Art Gallery

early to mid-20th century

Not on view

Medium: Hand spun cotton
Dimensions: 58 × 96 in. (147.3 × 243.8 cm)
Credit Line: The Heinz Family Fund
Accession Number: 2022.55.2
Geography: Possibly made in Banamba, Mali, Retailed in Ghana
Culture: Fulani, Maabo Weaver
Period: 20th century
Classification: Textiles
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Provenance

Art Market, probably Ghana; sold to Bubakar Dukrure (dealer), Accra, Ghana, by 2021 [see note 1]; sold to Duncan Clarke (Alfie’s Antiques Market), London 2021; sold through Emilie Irving (Xenomania), New York, to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2022

Note 1: Bubakare Dukrure bought it from one of his network of local dealers (email from Duncan Clarke to the Gallery, June 23, 2022, copy in curatorial file)

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