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Patterns of life : West African strip-weaving traditions / Peggy Stoltz Gilfoy.
Penn Museum Library NK8989 .G55 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Gilfoy, Peggy Stoltz.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Textile fabrics, Black--Africa, West--Exhibitions.
- Textile fabrics, Black.
- Hand weaving--Africa, West--Exhibitions.
- Hand weaving.
- Male weavers--Africa, West--Exhibitions.
- Male weavers.
- West Africa.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 95 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- West African strip-weaving traditions
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, c1987.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Patterns of Life: The Trans-Saharan Trade; The European Coastal Trade; Asante and Ewe Textile Traditions; Composition in West African Strip Weaving
- Catalogue of Exhibition.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition, organized by the National Museum of African Art and held September 28, 1987-February 29, 1988.
- "Cover: Wrapper. Ewe people, Ghana (cat. no. 35)."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-95).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 087474475X
- OCLC:
- 16469224
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