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Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 5-16697, described as Kente cloth shawl; 5 narrow strips sewn together to form a shawl with fringes on each end (blue). colors include golden yellow, green, dark red, royal blue, black and white. alternating patterns of basket like design, colored stripes and solid blue sections.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-16408, described as Ashanti cloth. narrow loom Khente cloth made up of 13 bands 8-9cm wide. 4 bands are traditional yellow, dark red, navy, green, hand loomed, separated by 1,2, or 3 bands of indigo and white. bands sewn together by hand.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-16116, described as Kente cloth; men's; very fine; very large; 22 bands sewn together. alternating blue/white checks and multi-colored stripe with center pattern in blue/yellow/ magenta/white.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15854, described as Cloth, kente. Consists of 14 - 9.3cm W strips machine sewn together. Blue warp with weft-faced and supplementary weft repeating patterns in yellow, red, green, orange, white, and black. All warp ends ravelled. Attached tag reads “AWP 1976 - #7 - kente cloth - purchased Mar - Palime at Togo - John Sabah’s 'weaving factory’ “. 188cm x 122.5cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-16471, described as Ashnati strip cloth. Khenti style, narrow loom woven strip with ecru base, yellow, green, maroon, black woven patterns of stripes and hourglass shapes. finished with warp fringe.