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mid-20th century
Length x width: 254 x 139.7 cm (100 x 55 in.)
Cotton plain weave with supplementary cotton patterning wefts (strip-woven)
Classification: Textiles
Culture: Niger or Upper Volta, Djerma
Accession number: 2011.2238
Description: Large strip woven blanket. Ivory ground of imported cotton yarn patterned with stripes and geometric designs in red, blue and gold. Strips sewn together by machine.
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