About This Artwork
Panel (Lamba Mpanjaka-Monarch's or Sovereign's Wrapper)1997
Silk, warp-faced plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and supplementary brocading wefts; finished at both ends with knotted and braided warp fringe
278.1 x 171.5 cm (109 1/2 x 67 1/2 in.)
Weft repeat: point repeat
Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment, 1998.84
Textiles
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, Gallery 141, "Ordinary Made Extraordinary: African Textiles," April 17– August 1, 1999
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, "Gifts and Blessings: The Textile Arts of Madagascar," April 14–September 2, 2002