Married Woman's Bògòlanfini Wrapper

Textiles

1988

Designed and executed by Jege Coulibaly
Bamana
Africa, Mali, Beledougou, Ngalafouga

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Jege Coulibaly (Designer)
Title: Married Woman's Bògòlanfini Wrapper
Place: Mali (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1988
Medium: Cotton, eight narrow strips of plain weave; pieced; resist painted and printed
Dimensions: 134.6 × 95.3 cm (53 × 37 1/2 in.); Approximate strip: W.: 11.9 cm (4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society
Reference Number: 1989.547

Art Institute of Chicago. Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Oct. 5, 1993– Jan. 6, 1994.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, 20 Years of Textile Society Collecting (1978–1998), Dec. 20, 1997–Mar. 22, 1998.

Commissioned by Sarah Brett-Smith, Mali and Highland Park, NJ, July 1988 [according to correspondence from S. Brett-Smith, textile was commissioned through Fatmata Traorde, Mali; invoice #1989-1, Apr. 19, 1989; incoming permanent receipt RX17928, Aug. 24, 1989, copy in curatorial object file, Textiles Department]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

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