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Faja by Sheila Hicks — VisualArtsDB

Faja

Faja

1950–1964

Medium: Wool and cotton
Dimensions: 62.9 × 11.5 cm (24 3/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
Genre: textile
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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wool (textile)fiber artTextileweaving

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