Textile with portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama and John and Naadu Mills
date: label: Date
content: 2008
name: label: Manufactured by
content: GTP, Ghanaian, founded 1966
label: Subject of
content: President Barack Obama, American, born 1961
label: Subject of
content: First Lady Michelle Obama, American, born 1964
label: Subject of
content: President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills, Ghanaian, 1944 - 2012
label: Subject of
content: First Lady Ernestina Naadu Mills, Ghanaian
notes: label: Description
content: Length of commemorative printed textile by GTP (Ghana Textile Production) featuring portraits of President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Ghanian President John Mills, and Ghanian First Lady Naadu Mills. The fabric has a cream ground with an allover background design of a multi-colored lattice with a small five-pointed star where the lattice work crosses. A United States and Ghana flag with crossed poles are placed between the oval portraits of the political figures over the lattice work. The portraits are in four (4) rows, with the top and third rows having alternating portraits of the Obamas and the second and bottom rows having alternating portraits of the Mills. The portraits are also arranged so that a Michelle portrait is below a Barack portrait in the top row, and vice versa. The oval frames containing Obama portraits are double red lines with cream interiors and blue stars and text, and a blue banner around the bottom half outside the double lines. The oval frames containing Mills portraits are double red lines with yellow interiors and black stars and text, and a green banner around the bottom half outside the double lines. The text inside the double lines has the name of the person at the bottom center with three (3) five-pointed stars on each side. Text inside the banners underneath the frames contains the title of each figure: "PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA"; "FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERA"; "PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA"; "FIRST LADY OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA". The portraits appear to be drawings from photographs printed in black onto the cream ground. Printed along the top and bottom is the same border with three (3) stripes in red, yellow, and green and a cream interior. Black five-pointed stars are printed on top of the lined borders. Inside the border are a United States and a Ghanian flag with crossed poles printed in a repeating design. Every other pair of flags has the text "JULY - 2009" printed inside a blue outlined banner under the flags. The manufacturer's logo "GTP" inside a black oval and the text "GHANA 2405" are printed along both selvedges in repetition.
place: label: Place made
content: Tema, Greater Accra, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Africa
label: Topic
content: African diaspora
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Identity
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: Textile design
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 2001-
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Textiles and Quilts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Catherine E. McKinley
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.16.12
objectType: label: Type
content: textiles
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown - Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: cotton
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 47 13/16 × 72 1/16 in. (121.5 × 183 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: Horizontal Repeat: 25 in. (63.5 cm)