Commemorative Textile: Kennedy
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Sep 2010
name: label: Collector
content: Irene Petty
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of African Art
notes: label: Notes
content: Purple background. Central medallion with black and white photo portrait of John F. Kennedy, with banners reading "1917 1963" and "L'Afrique ne vous oublie pas" above and below. Along the edges is repeating motif of light- and dark-skinned hands, shaking hands. No text on selvage. End cut / unhemmed. There is nothing on this cloth to indicate which country it is from. Dr. Mary Jo Arnoldi, curator of African Ethnology, says "my best guess would be Cote d'Ivoire based on the plain background style of the cloth. Senegalese cloths usually have more pattern in the background."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Côte d'Ivoire (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2054366
label: USNM Number
content: E432601-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Textile
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 53 cm
label: Width
content: 116 cm