Arkilla Kerka (Wedding Hanging)

Textiles

Mid–20th century

Fulani (maabube weaver)
Mali

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Fulani
Title: Arkilla Kerka (Wedding Hanging)
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 1925–1975
Medium: Bands of cotton and wool, weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave, plain weave with paired warp, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and bands of slit tapestry weave
Dimensions: 431.2 × 161.8 cm (169 3/4 × 63 5/8 in.); Weft repeat approximately: H.: 23 cm (9 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Gil and Roda Graham
Reference Number: 2002.535

Kathleen Bickford Berzock, editor. 2019. Caravans of Gold: Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa. Exh. cat. Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University with Princeton University Press, pg. 97 (ill).

Evanston, Ill., Block Musem of Art, Northwestern University, Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa, Jan. 26–July 21, 2019, cat. pg. 97, fig. 6.5; traveled to Toronto, the Aga Khan Museum, Sept. 21, 2019–Feb. 23, 2020; and Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Apr. 8–Nov. 29, 2020.

Gilbert and Roda Graham, Woodbury, N.Y., by 2002 [Incoming permanent receipt RX23788 dated Sept. 30, 2002 in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.

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