Commemorative Java Cloth Lappa
Unidentified maker (Sierra Leone)
1970
Cotton
Overall: 77 3/16 × 46 7/8 in. (196 × 119 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
170.30.25206
Geography
Place Made: Freetown, Sierra Leone, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Textile
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Course History
HIST 66, AAAS 15, History of Africa since 1800, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
Exhibition History
African Textiles, History 12, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30 - April 23, 1993.
Collectanea: The Museum as Hunter and Gatherer, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21, 2005-February 12, 2006.
Cultural Exchange, the Body, and Art and Technology, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 25-March 9, 2003.
Provenance
Purchased by Stewart G. Rosenblum, Class of 1970, for the Dartmouth College Museum, 1970.
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