Stencil
Gallery Location
Not on View
Maker
Unidentified artist or workshop
Medium
Wood
Geography
Sierra Leone
Date
1970s
Dimensions
11.5 x 10 x 23 cm
Object number
2023.38.8
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Loretta Reinhardt
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: Global Africa
Description
Square stencil with long handle. The printing surface is carved in a bird motif in high relief. Stencils such as this would have been used for resist wax printing on textiles. Wax would be painted on the design and applied to an undyed textile to create decorative motifs.
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