Collection record · Dress & textiles
Blanket or Cover (Kaasa)
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated c. 1930s or earlier. Recorded culture or place: Africa; West Africa; Mali, Niger, or Burkina Faso; Fulani (Peul) style; unknown weavers.
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- Museum title
- Blanket or Cover (Kaasa)
- Date
- c. 1930s or earlier
- Culture / origin
- Africa; West Africa; Mali, Niger, or Burkina Faso; Fulani (Peul) style; unknown weavers
- Materials and technique
- Wool, dye
- Dimensions
- Overall: 217.8 x 126.4 cm (85 3/4 x 49 3/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2024.72
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Made on order, this blanket was hand woven in six strips that were sewn together at the selvages to make the full textile. Repeated named, symbolic geometric motifs in deep browns, blacks, and reds create an overall sense of rhythmic dynamism as naturally dyed colored floated weft (horizontal) threads dance in and out of the undyed cream-colored wool base textile. Some motifs have ties to Islam, as the Fulani were among the first West Africans to convert, or to nearby Tuareg cultures.
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