Kente cloth

man's wrapper (kente)
Culture
Asante people
Creation date
mid 1900s
Materials
rayon (and cotton?)
Not Currently On View
Credit line
The Budd Stalnaker Collection of African Textiles
Accession number
2007.135
Provenance

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Kathryn Kreider*; purchased July 23, 1983 by Budd Stalnaker**, Bloomington, Indiana; given to IMA by his son, Aaron Stalnaker, November 2007.
*This cloth was bought new by Kathyrn Kreider when she taught at Amadu Bello University (Nigeria).
**This was the first Kente cloth purchased by Budd Stalnaker.
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