Ghanaian Textile (Kente), Abenyinase, Ghana, Africa, 2017

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Digital Media Bank ID: 81612
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Description: Ewe made narrow strip woven kente cloth, asidanuvor design cloth, with woven design of map of Ghana, showing regions and main cities, with weavers name and telephone number woven into the top. This type of cloth probably developed in Togo (where the weaver was working in 1990s). Cloth commissioned for the FA collection. 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), Abenyinase, Ghana, Africa, 2017
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Creator (of Artwork / Object): Gator Gbogbo
Date Created (of Object / Artwork): 2017
Description (Object or Artwork): Ewe made narrow strip woven kente cloth, asidanuvor design cloth, with woven design of map of Ghana, showing regions and main cities, with weavers name and telephone number woven into the top. This type of cloth probably developed in Togo (where the weaver was working in 1990s). Cloth commissioned for the FA collection. Collected as part of the Fashioning Africa project
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Other Keywords: Fashioning Africa
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Size: 1.91 MB; 2826 x 1894 pixels; 239 x 160 mm (print at 300 DPI);
Orientation: Landscape
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Linked Accession no.: R6074