Vai
Blanket
Vai, 1900-1932
Scroll
Vai
Blanket
Vai, 1900-1932
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 402 x 180 cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number
1998.432
Blanket in five wide strips with stripes in beige, black, yellow, brown and red; with one band in center with three separate patterns (one black and white diamond in center, flanked by red and white zig zag pattern and black and white multiple diamond pattern at ends). Special designs in red and black are supplementary weft.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1923-1929 by the parents of donor (Bruce Bussell): Conrad Turner Bussell and Pauline Bussell. Mr. Bussell was sent by the U.S. Government under President Calvin Coolidge to survey the boundaries of Liberia. He was, instead, made Supervisor of Customs by President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia, and later made Financial Advisor to President King. Mrs. Bussell arrived in 1926.
Inscribed: Old masking tape label with number written: L75-16-12.
