Blanket
- Object Name
- couverture personnages
- Label Text
- The blankets with figures evolved from the bright cotton rectangular motif blankets woven for modern beds in the mid-20th century. The uniformed soldiers relate to the 1968 military coup. The scantily clad ladies are not documented but perhaps relate to the blankets used as wedding gifts.
- Description
- 18-strip cotton blanket with figures of 3 soldiers in green uniforms, 2 women in bikinis, shoes and purses, and 1 man in black garb. Rectangular bars of color probably refer to the flag.
- Provenance
- Ambassador Arthur Lewis, Washington D.C., -- to 2011
- Exhibition History
- Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue - From the Collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and Camille O. and William H. Cosby, Jr., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, November 7, 2014-January 24, 2016 (installed June 30, 2015)
- Published References
- Kreamer, Christine Mullen and Adrienne L. Childs (eds). 2014. Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue from the Collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and Camille O. and William H. Cosby, Jr. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, pp. 184-185, pl. 92.
- Topic
- Household
- Status
- Adornment
- male
- female
- National Museum of African Art
- Oumar Bocoum, born Mali
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Ambassador Arthur and Doctor Frances Lewis Collection
- Medium
- Cotton, dye
- Dimensions
- H x W: 158 x 348 cm (62 3/16 x 137 in.) Strip (18): 9 cm (3 9/16 in.)
- See more items in
- National Museum of African Art Collection
- Geography
- Mali
- Late 20th century
- Type
- Costume and Textile
- Object number
- 2011-17-8
