Kente Wrapper (Nsaduaso)

Textiles

1925-75

Asante
Ghana

The specialized designs, color combinations, and warp-strip configurations that define kente cloth, which makes up this wrapper, were probably first created under the patronage of the Asantehene, monarch of the historical Kingdom of Asante. Draped over one shoulder and falling to the wearer’s feet in lavish folds, the finely woven cloth is only one part of the rich array of royal presentation regalia and visual markers of kingship, wealth, and status.

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Department: Textiles

Culture: Asante
Title: Kente Wrapper (Nsaduaso)
Place: Ghana (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 1925–1975
Medium: Silk, cotton, and rayon, 27 narrow woven strips of plain weave with bands of weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave and bands of plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; joined
Dimensions: 335.2 × 231 cm (132 × 91 in.); Strip: W.: 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard Faletti, the Faletti Family Collection
Reference Number: 1991.761

Art Institute of Chicago “African Art at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 23, no. 2 (1997): 142 (image only).

Art Institute of Chicago, Africa, Oceania and the Americas Galleries, In conjunction with Gift, Bequest and Purchase: A Selection of Textile Acquisitions from 1988–1992, Jan. 25–Dec. 8, 1994.
Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Africa, Gallery 137, Jul. 28, 2021-Feb. 15, 2022.

Richard Faletti (died 2006) and Barbara Faletti (died 2000), Clarendon Hills, IL and Phoenix, AZ, by 1991 [Permanent receipt RX19279, Jan. 1, 1991, in curatorial file, Arts of Africa]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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