Bogolanfini, cotton cloth patterned with painted repeated geometric designs using iron-rich mud pigment.

Collection type: Object
Description: Bogolanfini, cotton cloth patterned with painted repeated geometric designs using iron-rich mud pigment.
Geographical reference: Mali
Africa > Western Africa > Mali
Person: Maker Gneli Traoré; Field collector Jane Wagner; PRM source Jane Wagner
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1974
Date collected: Between 1970 - 1974
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1974
Materials and processes: Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Earth, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Painted, Process Decorated, Process Dyed, Process Stitched, Process Stencilled
Dimensions: Length 1880 mm, Width 1020 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1974.23.3
Research and responses: The cloths donated acquired from Jane Wagner in 1974 may be the work of Gneli Traoré. In a letter to Michael O'Hanlon dated 26 April 2007, Pascal James Imperato identified the artist in the photograph (1974.23.13.34) exhibited alongside this cloth in the PRM's Treasured Textiles exhibition (see under 'Display History') as Gneli Traoré, to whom he introduced Jane Wagner in 1970; for further information, see African Mud Cloth: The Bogolanfini Art Tradition of Gneli Traoré of Mali, by Pascal James Imperato (New York: Kilma House Publishers, 2006). (Copy of correspondence in RDF for photograph 1974.23.13.34.) [JC 18 10 2019]

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