Woman's Wrapper

Asante Ghana

Date

1925/75

Medium

Cotton, sixteen narrow woven strips of warp-stripe, warp-faced plain weave, some with bands of weft-faced plain weave and warp-faced plain weave with discontinuous supplementary patterning warps and supplementary brocading wefts; pieced

Dimensions

208.5 × 136.4 cm (82 1/8 × 53 5/8 in.) Approximate strip width: (3 1/4 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Purchased with funds provided by the Primitive Art Society of Chicago