Lappa (length of cloth)
Unidentified maker (Sierra Leone)
1970
Cloth
Overall: 6.56 ft. (2 m)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
170.30.25201
Geography
Place Made: Freetown, Sierra Leone, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Textile
Research Area
Africa
Textiles and Costumes
Not on view
Course History
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I and II, Tricia Treacy, Fall 2020
SART 27.01, Printmaking I, Tricia Treacy, Fall 2022
Exhibition History
African Textiles, History 12, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-April 23, 1993.
Provenance
Purchased by Stewart G. Rosenblum, Class of 1970, for the Dartmouth College Museum, 1970.
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