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
It has received support through an
Ohio Arts Council Sustainability Grant.