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Textile

Nupe, 1933-1999

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Nupe

Textile

Nupe, 1933-1999

Physical Qualities Cotton (handspun), 71 3/4 × 49 in. (182.3 × 124.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Diana Scheinberg Stanley, Reisterstown, Maryland, in Memory of Alfred L. Scheinberg
Object Number 1994.100
Strip-woven, gray, brown and pink designs: checkerboard, quadrupeds (camels?), rhombuses, etc. Strip-woven tan textile (two strips sewn together) with supplementary weft float designs in gray, brown and pink (from top to bottom): checkerboard, rhombuses, quadrapeds (camels?), checkerboard.
Alfred Scheinberg, NY (brother of donor)

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2000–2000

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