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Donation of African Marriage-Bed Textile to Yale University Art Gallery

PRESS RELEASE Now on display at the Yale University Art Gallery is an Arkilla Kerka, a tent-divider and marriage-bed screen used to seclude the bed of newlyweds.  The textile, donated by Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Society in Madison, Connecticut, is 174” x 65¾” and is from the Niafounke region on the interior Niger River delta in […]

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