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Summary
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English:
Adinkra
mourning cloth collected by
Thomas Edward Bowdich
in 1817.
Bowdich obtained this cotton cloth in Kumasi, a city in south-central Ghana. The patterns were printed using carved calabash stamps and a vegetable-based dye. This oldest known example of adinkra art and features fifteen stamped symbols, including nsroma (stars), dono ntoasuo (double Dono drums), and diamonds.
British Museum
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| Date | 18th century cloth, collected in 1817 |
| Source | http://www.history.buffalo.edu/documents/SeemanWMQ.pdf |
| Author | photo of 2D work more than 100 years old |
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