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Kente Cloth3595/28

Strip of kente cloth composed of eight rectangular sections of blue with red, yellow, black, and white stripes. The blue sections are separated by smaller sections of green, red, yellow, and black stripes. There are also small sections of blue with red, yellow, black, and white stripes, but with yellow and red geometric shapes or lines embroidered on top. Near both ends of the strip are sections of lines composed of red and yellow stripes, and red and yellow checkered boxes. Each section is delineated by thin white lines. The strip is rectangular and has a fringe on the shortest ends.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hat3600/9

Gold dome-shaped hat with black decorative band around sides. Band has a central ladder design, framed on either side by alternating patterns. Designs alternate between checked rectangles, and vertical arrows with “U” shapes and horizontal bars overtop; vertical lines on either side of arrows. Designs on band are done in gold; interior of hat is unlined.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hat3600/8

Red dome-shaped hat with blue decorative band around sides. Pattern along band has central design of a vertical line with a square in the centre, framed on either side by alternating rectangles. Designs in rectangles alternate between stripes and vertical arrows with horizontal bars. Designs on band are done in red; interior of hat is unlined.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Funeral Cloth3530/3

Brown cloth composed of eight strips of fabric; six span the length of the cloth, two are shorter and make up one row. Strips are stitched together along the long edges and decorated with kente embroidery; done in yellow with alternating green, black and red stripes. Adinkra symbols stamped throughout; stamps consist of alternating blocks of swirls, vertical lines, columns of hourglass-like shapes, concentric circles, and diamonds in a line grid; stamps done in dark metallic grey. Back of cloth is undecorated.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Kente Textile3473/4

Kente cloth composed of twenty-three hand woven cloth strips. The strips have been stitched together along the long edge and have embroidered designs overtop. Each strip has a multi-coloured checkered pattern; done in black, yellow, red, green and blue. The embroidered designs in the centre of the cloth consist of rectangular blocks, plain stripes, ladder-like stripes and geometric motifs; done in dark yellow, black, dark red, blue, green, and light orange. Left and right edges are covered entirely in embroidery, consisting of a rectangular block design. Blocks are filled with horizontal and vertical stripes, checkers, and parallelogram-like shapes; done in dark orange, dark red, dark yellow, green, yellow, dark blue and light pink. Tag attached to back bottom right corner.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth3448/1

Kente cloth composed of five hand woven cloth strips. The green strips have been stitched together along the long edge, and then embroidered with designs. At each end there are five rectangles across by five rectangles down each strip. The centre of the cloth has groups of three rectangles with embroidered designs spread out. Uneven fringed ends.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
cotton fibre, dye and silk fibre
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth3448/3

Kente cloth composed of four hand woven cloth strips. Each strip has a wide white band flanked by two smaller white bands running down the length of a dark blue background. The strips have been stitched together along the long edge, and then embroidered with designs within small rectangles. Every second rectangle, offset from the neighbouring column, contains an embroidered band of red, flanked by gold, and then light green in horizontal bands. Fringed ends.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth3448/2

Kente cloth composed of four hand woven cloth strips. Each strip has a green and yellow band running down the length of a wine-coloured background. The strips have been stitched together along the long edge, and then embroidered with designs.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth3448/4

Kente cloth composed of eight dark blue hand woven cloth strips. The strips have been stitched together along the long edge, and then embroidered with designs within small rectangles. The entire cloth is covered in rectangles of designs with more of the blue background showing through in the centre area. Short blue fringed ends.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dress3343/8 a-c

Two piece dress- shirt (part a) and long skirt (part b)- with long belt or sash (part c). Black zigzag design across all parts. Inside zigzags are blue, pink and light brown V shapes in rows, outlined in black. Shirt has three quarter length bell sleeves. Two pleats down front and back, giving top a flared waist. Zipper running down entire back. Hook clasp above zipper. Interior of top, except sleeves, lined with white cotton. Neckline and cuff interiors lined with black cotton. Skirt has drawstring waist, ties at centre back. Two pleats running down left and right sides of skirt. Black cotton lining along interior of waistline. Back of sash or belt lined with black cotton. All pieces of dress are hemmed.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
cotton fibre and metal
Made in
Kumasi, Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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