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Cloth (Kente)
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Cloth (Kente)

Maker Akan
Object number81.17.457
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, African Panoplies: Art for Rulers, Traders, Hunters, and Priests, Apr. 21 - Aug. 14, 1988.
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions84 1/4 in. (214 cm) L.: 129 5/8 in.
MediumCloth (strip weave)
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Cloth (Kente)
Akan
Object number: 81.17.463
Photo: Paul Macapia
Kente cloth: (Aberewa Bene "Wise Old Lady")
Ghanaian
20th century
Object number: 81.17.433
Photo: Paul Macapia
Kente Cloth: (Nkontompo Ntama, "liar's cloth")
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.466
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Cloth (Kente)
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.461.1
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Cloth (Kente)
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.461.2
Photo: Paul Macapia
Kente Cloth: (Mmeeda, "something that has not happened before")
Ghanaian
20th century
Object number: 81.17.434
Kente Cloth
Kente Cloth
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.437
Kente Cloth
Kente Cloth
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.456
Kente Cloth
Kente Cloth
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.458
Photo: Paul Macapia
Kente Cloth: (Mmaaban, "unity is strength")
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.459
Kente Cloth
Kente Cloth
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.465
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Cloth
Baule
19th-20th Century
Object number: 81.17.248