cloth with Shehu Shagari, unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist

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cloth with Shehu Shagari, unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist
cloth with Shehu Shagari, unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist
unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist
cloth with Shehu Shagari
1983
unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist, artist
cloth with Shehu Shagari, 1983
Where object was made: Kano, Nigeria
Material/technique: dyeing; cotton
Dimensions:
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 174 x 109.5 cm
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 43 1/8 x 68 1/2 in
Credit line: Gift of Professor Beverly Mack
Accession number: 2011.0240
Not on display
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Collection Cards: People

This fabric design was created in Kano, Nigeria, on the continent of Africa. The figure depicted in the design is Alhaji Shehu Shagari, the president of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983. These repeated portraits of Shagari on the patterned cloth communicate his high status within Nigeria.

Where do you find pictures of the important leaders where you live?

Exhibitions

Conversation XII: Politics as Symbol/Symbol as Politics
Burdett Loomis, curator
Celka Straughn, curator
2012–2013