Tunic (Tobe)
West African, Liberia, ca. 1960-1965
Indigo-dyed plain-weave cotton warp ikat resist-dyeing technique. Yellow cotton embroidery.
Collected by the donors when Mr. Heller was advisor at the Booker T. Washington Institute in Kakata, Liberia.
Kent State University Museum
Gift of James and Ethel Heller
KSUM 1985.045.0009


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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