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Unknown"Tribal Cloth, Ewe Ghana, " Multicolored Cotton Textile created circa 1965circa 1965
circa 1965
$6,525
£4,952.38
€5,708.02
CA$9,144.29
A$10,205.82
CHF 5,369.42
MX$123,972.50
NOK 68,070.01
SEK 63,705
DKK 42,600.98
About the Item
The Ewe people from Ghana are master weavers. People of means commission cloths called adanudo ("skilled/wise cloths"). Ewe adanudo textiles often display a tweed effect by twisting together different colored threads in many of the warps. Two things distinguish traditional Ewe weaving from Asante weaving: 1) the use of cotton rather than silk or rayon; and 2) the introduction of floating weft patterns of a figurative nature into some of the warp-faced sections of a strip. Today, however, much of the weaving is done with rayon (although the featured cloth is cotton). The textiles, unlike those of the Asante, may also incorporate pictorial symbols and figural motifs or people, plants, animals, and objects. Motifs include knives, hands (what we have we hold), keys (to the castle), chiefs' fly whisks, and musical instruments. Significantly, each motif has a proverbial meaning. Like the Asante, Ewe weavers us the same type of loom, and the weaving and sewing are also done by men.
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