Adinkra Cloth
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unknown Ghanaian
Ghanaian Primary
Adinkra Cloth
purchased in 1970
Cotton
132 x 85 in. (335.28 x 215.9 cm)
Bryn Mawr College
Accession Number:
2018.27.1
Acquisition Date:
Geography:
Africa, Ghana
Classification:
Clothing and Adornments
Culture/Nationality:
Akan
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- adinkra - Asante stamped cloth.
- printing - Various means of reproducing identical copies of graphic matter in a fixed form. Processes by which an image, pictorial or textual, is transferred, usually to paper or cloth, most often by means of a plate, block, stone, or screen. Use also for the making of photographic prints and, with computers, for the production of a paper copy of stored data. For the production of prints in a fine arts context, prefer "printmaking."
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Related Bibliography List
The following Related Bibliography exist for this object:
- John Gillow, African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent (New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2016), 88-91.
- G. F. Kojo Arthur, Cloth as Metaphor: (Re)-reading the Adinkra Cloth Symbols of the Akan of Ghana (Ghana: Center for Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 2001),
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