Object Details
- Yalunka artist
- Label Text
- This dye-stamped, patterned shirt is typical of the Yalunka peoples. It was brought to Bafodea, a center of the Limba peoples who learned dye stamping from the Yalunka. Its complex design motifs would have conferred status and prestige on the wearer.
- Description
- Man's shirt.
- Provenance
- Venice and Alastair Lamb, acquired Bafodea, Sierra Leone, 1980 to 1983
- Exhibition History
- TxtStyles: Fashioning Identity, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 11-December 7, 2008
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- Credit Line
- National Museum of African Art, National Museum of Natural History, purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, 1983-85, EJ10463
- Mid-20th century
- Object number
- EJ10463
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Textile and Fiber Arts
- Medium
- Cotton, natural dye
- Dimensions
- H x W: 92 x 110cm (36 1/4 x 43 5/16in.)
- Geography
- Kalia, Sierra Leone
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- National Museum of African Art Collection
- Object Name
- hu ronko
- National Museum of African Art
- Topic
- Status
- Adornment
- Male use
- geometric motif
- star
- Record ID
- nmafa_EJ10463
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys747e76174-8f4d-4380-8acd-1cd5148c7793
