wrap; kanga

Length of printed cloth, comprising two panels. Each panel contains in the centre a black background, with two blue and white and one red and white head of Barack Obama surrounded by four United States flags (the white stripes printed black). In each corner of each central section is a round device comprising red and white stripes and a black and blue semi-circle. In the bottom centre of each central section is the inscription 'YES WE CAN - OBAMA'. Each panel is famed by a thin border of white stars within a pair of white lines, and around this is an outside border compring '2008' wriiten many times in three lines, the inner and outer alternating red and blue, the middle in white; in each corner of the outer borders the circular motif from the central section is repeated.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2011.68
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 1090 mm x 3360 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
textile
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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