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Blanket or Cover (Kaasa)
c. 1930s or earlier
- Medium
- Wool, dye
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- Overall: 217.8 x 126.4 cm (85 3/4 x 49 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Africa; West Africa; Mali, Niger, or Burkina Faso; Fulani (Peul) style; unknown weavers
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, African Art
- Credit line
- Alma Kroeger Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Made on order, this blanket was hand woven in six strips that were sewn together at the selvages to make the full textile. Repeated named, symbolic geometric motifs in deep browns, blacks, and reds create an overall sense of rhythmic dynamism as naturally dyed colored floated weft (horizontal) threads dance in and out of the undyed cream-colored wool base textile. Some motifs have ties to Islam, as the Fulani were among the first West Africans to convert, or to nearby Tuareg cultures.
