Research Catalog
Wrapped in pride : Ghanaian kente and African American identity
- Title
- Wrapped in pride : Ghanaian kente and African American identity / Doran H. Ross ; with contributions by Raymond A. Silverman ... [et al.].
- Author
- Ross, Doran H.
- Publication
- Los Angeles, CA : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1998
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 347 p. : ill. (some col.), map; 31 cm.
- Series Statement
- UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History textile series ; no. 2
- Subjects
- Costume > Symbolic aspects > United States > Exhibitions
- Kente cloth > United States > Exhibitions
- West African strip weaving > Ghana > Exhibitions
- Ewe (African people) > Costume > Exhibitions
- Ashanti (African people) > Costume > Exhibitions
- African Americans > Clothing > Exhibitions
- Costume > Symbolic aspects > Ghana > Exhibitions
- Kente cloth > Ghana > Exhibitions
- Note
- Catalog accompanying an exhibition of the same name held at the Newark Museum and the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: fine weaves and tangled webs ; Asante: kingdom of cloth ; A beautiful cloth does not wear itself / Doran H. Ross -- Maternal legacies: a weave of stories / Abena P.A. Busia -- The Gods wear Kente / Raymond A. Silverman -- The loom and weaving technology / Doran H. Ross -- Samuel Cophie, master weaver / Anne Spencer -- Asante cloth names and motifs / Doran H. Ross -- Cloth in Eweland: historical perspectives / Agbenyega Adedze -- Kente and its image outside of Ghana / Doran H. Ross -- Pride and avarice: Kente and advertising / Nii O. Quarcoopome -- Pride and Dignity / Betsy D. Quick -- Fashioned heritage / Doran H. Ross -- Catalog of Asante and Ewe weaving.
- Call Number
- Sc G 99-41
- ISBN
- 0930741684 (hard)
- 0930741692 (soft)
- LCCN
- 98041970
- OCLC
- 39905097
- Author
- Ross, Doran H.
- Title
- Wrapped in pride : Ghanaian kente and African American identity / Doran H. Ross ; with contributions by Raymond A. Silverman ... [et al.].
- Imprint
- Los Angeles, CA : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1998
- Series
- UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History textile series ; no. 2
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Silverman, Raymond Aaron.Newark Museum.University of California, Los Angeles. Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
- Research Call Number
- Sc G 99-41