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Adanudo, late 19th or early 20th century

  • Ewe, African

Handwoven silk

  • Overall: 80 × 50 inches (203.2 × 127 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, with funds from the Friends of African and African American Art and the Octavia W. Bates Fund, Emma S. Fechimer Fund and William C. Yawkey Fund

1997.12

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Dr. Nii O. Quarcoopome (Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA)

1997-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Ewe, African, Adanudo, late 19th or early 20th century, handwoven silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, with funds from the Friends of African and African American Art and the Octavia W. Bates Fund, et al., 1997.12.