Khanga cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Aug 2018
name: label: Donor Name
content: Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
notes: label: Notes
content: Khanga (industrial roller print textile) with lesso design. Printed in orange, purple, and white. Written on it is "Mapenzi yetu matamu hayaishi hamu" which translates "Our love has never-ending sweetness". The design incorporates fan-shaped motifs in the main section, and a scalloped pattern in the border. This khanga was designed and manufactured by Kaderdina Hajee Essak, Ltd., a textile company in Mombasa, Kenya. Two members of the Kaderdina family, Abdulhamid Muneeb Kaderdina and Mohamed Hussein Abdulkader Kaderdina, were participants in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival Kenya Program in 2014, and they gave this textile to the Smithsonian.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Aug 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mombasa, Kenya, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kenyan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2082609
label: USNM Number
content: E436150-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 328 cm
label: Width
content: 113 cm