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African Art
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1945–50
Cloth and synthetic fiber
49 × 656 3/16 in. (124.45 × 1666.65 cm)
Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
1995.53.1
Geography:
Guinea Coast, Ghana
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Fante, Asafo Military Company
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Textiles
Provenance:
Purchased by Yale University Art Gallery from Omar Diakite in 1995
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions, January 1994–December 1995,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1995–96): 156, 157, ill.
Frederick John Lamp, “Hot Space, Cool Space: The Reinstallation of the African Art Collection in the Louis Kahn Building at Yale University,” African Arts 40 (Summer 2007): 40–41, fig. 6.
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