Tunic (Tobe)
Africa, Nigeria or Sudan, ca. 1900-1980
Indigo-dyed cotton plain-weave with woven check of light blue on navy. Cream and yellow cotton
embroidery and open-work forming large spirals in front and back as well as other abstracted motifs
on the front left and around the neckline.
Kent State University Museum
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
KSUM 1983.001.0887a


Included in the Exhibition

Mood Indigo
Broadbent Gallery, September 27, 2007, to August 31, 2008
Dr. Anne Bissonnette, Curator

   
   


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Ohio Arts Council Sustainability Grant.
    


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