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Arkilla munnga blanket, Songhai
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460 x 250 cm, 10 strips, each 25 cm wide Wool, hand-spun thread.
1987 Originates from M’Bouna
(Cercle of Goundam) 87-2-55
Arkilla munnga blanket, Songhai
Arkilla munnga & Songhai Arkilla munnga blankets are generally made
for Maures and still created near or around Lake Faguibine by Songhai-speaking
Peul weavers. These arkilla blankets, sometimes weighing 10 kg, were
used for sleeping or as carpets in the tents of nomads. Folded in two
and suspended above a bed, they served the dual purpose of keeping off
mosquitoes and acting as a windbreak. The word arkilla means mosquito
net. It takes a skilled weaver approximately ten days to complete a
munnga. These blankets were manufactured for the French Army during
the forced labor regime of the First World War (1914 –1918).
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