cloth;
kanga
- Museum number
- 2008,2034.1
- Description
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Cotton cloth (kanga) printed predominantly in red and black on white ground. Depicts black and white photographic image of Barack Obama in centre of cloth. Flanked on either side by map of African continent in blue, green and white with black outlines. Border on all four sides of cloth has repeating design of four heart-shaped patterns on a red and white checked background. Slogans printed in KiSwahili. Double width kanga.
- Production date
- 2008
- Dimensions
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Length: 315 centimetres
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Width: 107 centimetres
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2013 14 Feb-21 April, London, BM, Social Fabric: African textiles today--textiles of southern and eastern Africa
2015 13 Feb - 17 May Birchington-on-sea, Powell Cotton Museum, Social Fabric: African Textiles Today
2015 23 May - 6 Sept, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Social Fabric: African Textiles Today
2015-2016 19 Sept-24 Jan, Ipswich Museum, Social Fabric: African Textiles Today
2016 20 Feb-29 May, Walthamstow, William Morris Gallery, Social Fabric: African Textiles Today
2017-2018, 10 Nov 2017 - 18 Feb 2018, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai, India, India and the World: A History in Nine Stories
2018, 6 May- 30 June, National Museum, New Delhi, India and the World: A History in Nine Stories
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 2008
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from Triangle Crafts, Westlands, Nairobi on 5 December 2008.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2008,2034.1
