id:			538169
accession number:	2023.9
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2023.9
updated:		2025-02-14 13:30:02.395000

Prestige cloth (kete or kente), c. 1930s–50s. Africa, West Africa, Ghana or Togo, Ewe-style weaver. Cotton and dye; overall: 322.6 x 175.3 cm (127 x 69 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, L. E. Holden Fund 2023.9

title:				Prestige cloth (kete or kente)
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creation date:			c. 1930s–50s
creation date earliest:		1930
creation date latest:		1959
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creditline:			L. E. Holden Fund
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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Ghana or Togo, Ewe-style weaver
technique:	Cotton and dye
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 322.6 x 175.3 cm (127 x 69 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	Private Collection, Togo, sold to Bubakar (Abubakar) Dukruri
	date: -May 2022
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	Bubakar (Abubakar) Dukruri, Accra, Ghana, sold to Duncan Clarke
	date: May 2022-November 2022
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	Duncan Clarke (Adire African Textiles), London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: November 2022-2023
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2023-
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