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1945–50

Not on view

Medium: Cloth and synthetic fiber
Dimensions: 49 × 656 3/16 in. (124.45 × 1666.65 cm)
Credit Line: Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
Accession Number: 1995.53.1
Geography: Guinea Coast, Ghana
Culture: Fante, Asafo Military Company
Period: 20th century
Classification: Textiles
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Provenance

Purchased by Yale University Art Gallery from Omar Diakite in 1995

Bibliography

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.

"Acquisitions, January 1994–December 1995," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1995–96): 156, 157, ill.

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Object/Work type

banners, human figures (visual works), textile materials

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