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Commemorative textile with portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama

2008

Bamako, District de Bamako, Mali, West Africa, Africa

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Length of commemorative printed textile by Batex-CI featuring a portrait of Barack Obama and a double portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama. The fabric has a bright green ground with a background printed design of diamonds filled in with lines and geometric shapes in black, white, and green. The diamonds are oriented in rows that alternate with one row having the green dots at the top and the next row having the green dots at the bottom of the diamond. There are three rows of portraits printed onto the background. The top and bottom rows are the same. They feature a circle with a black outline and white background containing a full color double photographic portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama. A white banner with black text is printed below it that reads "BARACK OBAMA".

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Catalog reference: 2017.16.4

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