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Ancient Cloth Series VIII
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Ancient Cloth Series VIII

Date1993
Maker El Anatsui Ghanaian, born 1944
Object number2025.12.2
Provenance[October Gallery, London, 1998]; purchased from gallery by the Appleby family (Kirkland, Washington), 1998 - 2025; gift to the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2025
Exhibition HistoryNew York, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art, September 16 - December 6, 2008.
Credit LineGift of the Appleby Family
Dimensions28 3/8 × 58 11/16 × 1 in. (72 × 149 × 2.5 cm)
MediumOkpo-ocha, oyili-oji, opepe, and oke-ofo woods on tempera
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Object number: 2025.12.1
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early- to mid-20th century
Object number: 2023.18.2
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early- to mid-20th century
Object number: 2023.18.4
Photo: Scott Leen
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1946
Object number: 53.103
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Nigerian, Yoruba culture
mid-20th century
Object number: 2023.18.1
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Azza El Siddique
2023
Object number: 2025.9
Photo: Nathaniel Willson
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285-246 B.C.
Object number: 47.57
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2323 - 2150 B.C.
Object number: 45.11
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
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Steven M. Cortright
1969
Object number: 70.60
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Object number: 81.17.193
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Kenneth Callahan
1955
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