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Title	Kente cloth strip
Subject	Africa Ghana Ashanti (African people) Kente cloth Kente cloth -- Ghana Hand weaving Handicraft -- Africa Africa, Art
Description	This cloth strip is very special. It was made in the Ghanaian village, Wonoo, world-renowned as one of the centers of manufacture for Asante kente cloth. This strip was purchased from a shop owned by Nana Asante-Frempong, one of many premiere Asante weavers in Ghana. Nana has given weaving demonstrations at the Smithsonian Institution as well as at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Each strip takes 12 hours to make and is made by a weaver using a double-heddle loom. As many as 100 strips might be sewn together to create a man's robe, called a nsaduaso." Elaborately woven silk cloth is reserved for men of royalty, like the Asantehene (Asante King), and men of importance, such as prominent chiefs. The colors of the thread are meaningful to the Asante. Gold denotes warmth, longevity and success; silver, white and blue signify purity and joy; red symbolizes death and sadness; white is believed to evoke the gods and the ancestors. The term kente is not traditional to Asante weavers, but has become a term commonly used by African-Americans to describe this type of Asante cloth. The Asante call high quality silk cloth used by royalty, their attendants, and prominent chiefs "asasia". Cotton and lesser quality silks worn by more common people are called "ntama" or "nsaduaso". Nevertheless, the cloth has become a cross-cultural icon, linking Africans of the Diaspora to their distant relatives still in Africa."
Photographer	Kaveney, Wendy
Identifier	99.35.1 or 99.35.2
Collection	Artifacts at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Coverage-Spatial	Ghana
Rights	This file is licensed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

Title	View 1
Photographer	Kaveney, Wendy
Collection	Artifacts at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Rights	This file is licensed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

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