Baule or Ashanti/West Africa

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Catalog # Name Description
1 2009.2.79 Fabric A rectangular piece with large detailed leaves patterned orientating themselves opposite every other one. Two inch border on long sides. Leaves very detailed- colored from dark inside to light. Color: BR/BL/WH 2009.2.79 (Fabric) image
2 2009.2.80 Fabric A rectangular fabric with curlicue batik design laid on it. GR piece with YL designs. GR fabric predesigned before batik with curvy lines. Color: GR/YL 2009.2.80 (Fabric) image
3 2009.2.81 Fabric A rectangular fabric with Batik designes. Pre Batik has square boxes of wave designs. Batik overlay of dots - YL and BR Color: BR/YL/GR/BL
4 2009.2.82 Fabric A rectangular fabric in Batik designs. Pre batik had squares of wave designs. Batik overly of dots - YL and BR. Many dots bleed to form lines of dye - throughout fabric. Color: BL/GR/BR/YL
5 2009.2.83 Fabric A rectangular fabric with fringe and patterned by circles and dyed by square sets of 16 dots in Batik fashion. Squares done in sets of four. Some sets diagonal. Some smearing of dye. WH dye, BR and BL background. Color: BL/BR/WH
6 2009.2.84 Fabric A rectangular fabric with patterned flowers on BK fabric with 4 circle flower batik style dyed in WH and BR. WH dye lays on BR dye. Short side has 11 inch border of stacked arrows, 8 rows of 11 arrows Color: BK/BR/WH
7 2009.2.85 Fabric A rectangular fabric dyed with a pattern of circles made of triangles with a circle in the middle. Fabric BR with few dots od dye. Circles primarly WH and BL with some light BR. Center of circles same color of fabric Color: BL/WH/BR
8 2009.2.86 Fabric A BR rectangular fabric patterned with circles made up of triangles. Patterns span whole fabric. Circles dyed with WH and BL and light BR. BR fabric is streaked and faded. Color: WH/BL/BR
9 2009.2.87 Fabric A rectangular GR and BR fabric patterned with leaves. Fabric prepatterned with designs of circles and branches off the circles. Leaf pattern in orderly fashion. Leaf has 16 lines indicating leaf grooves on each side, totalling 32 lines per leaf. Fabric is intermittently splashed with BL dye forming small dots. Color: BL/GR/BR/WH
10 2009.2.88 Fabric A rectangular piece of GR fabric patterned by 6.5 x 6.5 inch square patterns of leaves. Each square has 2 patterns of 3.25 x 3.25 inch leaves. The bottome row is opposite of the top. 1 leaf has crved sections, while other has jagged. The full square of 4 leaves are colored with YL and BL, alternating one after another. Fabric is 2 pieces sewn together and is 15 inches in width, while the other is 33 inches Color: GR/BL/YL/WH