Man's cloth, 20th century, 107 7/8 x 70 1/2 in. (274 x cm), Cotton; strip woven, supplementary weft patterning, Ghana or Togo, 20th century, Ewe and Asante styles are often differentiated on the basis of the motifs used in the pattern blocks. Although it is true that Ewe cloths may contain recognizable, figurative images of people, objects, or animals, many cloths have very simple decoration. Geometric forms, abstract figures or simple stripes are frequently used, and occasionally there is no additional design at all in between the blocks of color


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