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History, design, and craft in West African strip-woven cloth : papers presented at a symposium organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, February 18-19, 1988.

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History, design, and craft in West African strip-woven cloth : papers presented at a symposium organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, February 18-19, 1988.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : The Museum, [1992], ©1992.

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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Description
168 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 23 cm
Subject
  • Textile fabrics, Black > Africa, West > Congresses
  • West African strip weaving > Congresses
  • Hand weaving > Africa, West > Congresses
  • Male weavers > Africa, West > Congresses
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Foreword / Sylvia H. Williams -- Introduction / Roy Sieber -- Tradition, technology, and lurex / John Picton -- Clothing from burial caves in Mali, 11th-18th century / Rita Bolland -- The eye, the hand, and the stripe / Peggy Stoltz Gilfoy -- The cloth connection / Judith Perani -- Traditional cloth from the Ewe heartland / Merrick Posnansky -- The sociological significance and uses of Mende country cloth / Joanna P. Edwards.
LCCN
88025845
OCLC
  • 18442110
  • ocm18442110
  • SCSB-14349471
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries