Woman's Ritual Cloth Bogolanfini
Bamana People, Mali
20th century
Cotton strip-weave, 7 strip woven sections, painting, mud dye
34 x 60 inches
Collected in the field by Joseph Knophelmacher, a well-known collector and dealer of African Art, active in New York from circa 1960s-1980s.
The design is called “broken calabash”.
For related examples see Sarah C. Brett-Smith, The Silence of Women: Bamana Mud Cloths (Milan 2014).