Wedding or Herder’s Blanket (khasa or kaasa landaka)
Artist
Artist Unknown
Dateearly-mid 20th century
MediumHandspun sheep wool, dye
Dimensions(without fringe): 53 1/2 × 104 in. (135. x 264.2 cm)
(with fringe): 53 1/2 × 110 in. (135.9 × 279.4 cm)
(with fringe): 53 1/2 × 110 in. (135.9 × 279.4 cm)
ClassificationsTextiles
Credit LineGift of Reginald and Celeste Hodges
Object number2020.9.6
On View
Not on view[1] Purchased by the Hodges’s from a neighbor in Bo, Sierra Leone, who had acquired it from a relative in Guinea.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–October 8, 2023.. Object Rights Statement
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