Museum object · Textiles and Quilts
Commemorative textile in black with Obama campaign slogan Yes We Can
2008
Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
Source catalog description
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 Woodin in black featuring Barack Obama campaign slogan "Yes We Can." The fabric has a background printed design of small black triangles arranged with their points away from each other, creating diamond with a white horizontal strip in the middle and white diamond shapes around the black triangles. The white diamonds have a pale lavender dot printed at the center. A black silhouette of the continent of Africa is printed repeatedly in a scattered design over the background. The silhouettes contain three (3) different motifs in white text, arranged to alternate on the silhouettes as placed on the fabric. One motif is the stylized "W" logo of the printer, Woodin, done in white in the left corner over West Africa.
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Catalog reference: 2017.16.11
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