Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012

The Acquisitions

David and Roberta Logie Department of Textile and Fashion Arts: July 2011–June 2012

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Wrapper

1960s
Length x width: 185.4 x 115.6 cm (73 x 45 1/2 in.)
Plain weave cotton (strip-woven), resist dyed

Classification: Textiles

Culture: West African

Accession number: 2011.2233

Description: Strip-woven wrapper, stitch resisted with raffia and indigo dyed with horizontal stripes.

Provenance/Ownership History: By 1969, purchased in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, by Eli and Carolyn Newberger; 2011, gift of the Newbergers to the MFA (Accession date: December 30, 2011)

Gift of Carolyn and Eli Newberger