Kanga (United Nations Decade for Women Conference)

Unidentified Kenyan maker

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1985

Cotton (?) textile, commercial dyes

Overall: 41 3/4 × 66 1/8 in. (106 × 168 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mary Ann Cadwallader

2005.73

Geography

Place Made: Nairobi, Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Textile

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Inscriptions

Printed, in textile, lower center: UN DECADE FOR WOMEN CONFERENCE / JULY 1985, NAIROBI / KENYA.

Provenance

Mary Ann Cadwallader, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2005.

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