Kente Wrapper

Provenance

Jeffrey Hammer and Deborah Stokes, Chicago, IL, by 1982 [on loan to the AIC as 1201.1982; incoming receipt RX13772, Oct. 27, 1982, in curatorial file, Arts of Africa]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.

Kente Wrapper

Ewe

1900/50

Accession Number

100799

Medium

Cotton, 24 narrow woven strips with bands of warp-stripe plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts, and bands of weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave; joined; warp fringe

Dimensions

296.4 × 188.4 cm (116 3/4 × 74 1/8 in.); Strip: W.: 7.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)

Classification

kente

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Deborah Stokes and Jeffrey Hammer