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Blanket

mid-20th century
Medium/TechniqueCotton plain weave with supplementary cotton patterning wefts (strip-woven)
DimensionsLength x width: 254 x 139.7 cm (100 x 55 in.)
Credit LineGift of Carolyn and Eli Newberger
Accession number2011.2238
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceBy 1969, purchased in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, by Eli and Carolyn Newberger, Brookline, MA; 2011, year-end gift of the Newbergers to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)
late 19th century
Presentation cloth (aso oke)
Alhadji Yahaya Kalu
about 1950
Wrapper
late 19th–early 20th century
mid 20th century
Conservation status: Before treatment
Gilbert Bobbo Ahiagble
about 2004
Dowry Cloth
mid 20th century
mid 20th century
about 1860
about 1875