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View full screenShirt of hand-woven cotton cloth strips stitched together and dyed in brown stripes, with oblong and cylindrical shapes of palmwood covered with blue, red, black and white cotton, wool and animal skin all over and on the inside back amulets and war charms of leather covered pouches, worn by warriors and hunters for protection, part of the regalia of Kwamin Intsiaku, Chief of Sarman: West Africa, Ghana, Asante people, pre 1903
A.1906.517.11.1
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Sarman, Central Region, Ghana, Western Africa
Pre 1903
Asante
Cotton, Animal skin, Palmwood, Wool, Leather
Shirt of hand-woven cotton cloth strips stitched together and dyed in brown stripes with natural pigment, decorated all over with applied oblong and cylindrical shapes of palmwood covered with blue, red, black and white cotton, wool and animal skin; on the inside back of the shirt are amulets and war charms of leather covered pouches tied to the shirt with leather thongs.
Previous owner: Kwamin Intsiaku
Patterns of Life (29 Jul 2011)
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