Woman's Skirt Length

woman's skirt length, cotton, indigo dye, African (Mali) stored in box; stored w/ 85.125.2,5,11

Name: Gala Pere, meaning simple indigo. Designs: nonsirikokohou (fingernails): sarkoudiou guire tanou (three pairs of straight lines side by side)

Combination of these two designs is considered very beautiful by the Dogon near Bankass. A newly married woman would wear this wrapper. She would also wear it after she had born a second child and joined her husband's family.