Africa Box 1
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| 1 | 1968.10.46 | Textile | Fine-woven, Alternate strips of beige with center white stripe and medium blue with dark blue, pin-striped. Would have been 72" long unhemmed. Color: TN,WH,BL |
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| 2 | 1990.21.22 | Shawl | White with green woven border across the ends and across the center of the length. |
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| 3 | 2009.2.65 | Kente | Woven strip cloth blanket with varying strips and patterens and fringe. Each strip is about an inch in width, and each pattern varies in size. The first pattern after the initial fringe is inside 2 small strips of BK with WH lines and spots. Between those is a strip of RD and WH being the background and the RD makes diamonds. The next pattern has the BK and WH design, then a strip of RD. Between that is YL and BK patterns of diamonds. Next pattern has the BK and WH, then RD/WH/BK diamonds. Forth pattern has BK/WH pattern, strip of YL/RD/GR, then BK/WH pattern, RD/GR pattern, BK/YL pattern, then diamonds. Color: RD YL BL GR BK |
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| 4 | 2009.2.67 | Kente | 9 rectangular patterned strip cloth sewn together. All strips different strips made up of patterned blocks, the majority of these blocks being a WH box with BK lines, a BK box with WH lines, a WH box with BK ovals, or a BK box with WH/BL and YL?RD lines. Most patterns in 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 strips. Sewn patterns usually in RD/WH/BL and demonstrating rectangles or triangles Color: RD BK WH BL YL |
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| 5 | 2009.2.68 | Kente | 13 rectangular patterned strips, sewn together only every few inches. Majority of strips are BK/WH boxes. Patterns vary from each strip, usually following every other one. All strips have a familiar connecting pattern every so often. Each strip is about 3 inches long. |
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