Ghanaian Textile (Kente), Ghana, Africa

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Digital Media Bank ID: 81603
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Description: Pair of Ewe made women’s kente cloths, made with supplementary warp. Blue, green, yellow white and red. Kpevi ‘two stones’ is generic name in Southern Volta region for supplementary warp, also called ‘Korsokorso’ which means chain, and js the name of the specific design. Women wear one cloth a wrap skirt and one wrapped around the top half of the body. Bought from the weaver Atsu Eboe. Collected as part of the Fashioning Africa project
Categories: Collections, Collections/ Fashion & Textiles, Collections/ World Art/ Africa/ Fashioning Africa  
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Credit: Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Caption: Ghanaian Textile (Kente), Ghana, Africa
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Creator (of Artwork / Object): Atsu Eboe
Description (Object or Artwork): Pair of Ewe made women’s kente cloths, made with supplementary warp. Blue, green, yellow white and red. Kpevi ‘two stones’ is generic name in Southern Volta region for supplementary warp, also called ‘Korsokorso’ which means chain, and js the name of the specific design. Women wear one cloth a wrap skirt and one wrapped around the top half of the body. Bought from the weaver Atsu Eboe. Collected as part of the Fashioning Africa project
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Other Keywords: Fashioning Africa
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Size: 3.80 MB; 4924 x 1714 pixels; 417 x 145 mm (print at 300 DPI);
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Linked Accession no.: R6065/1/1; R6065/1/2