Portrait of a Young Kunama Woman

• Title Portrait of a Young Kunama Woman
• Category Drawing
• Medium Colored Drawing
• Dimensions 20"h x 13.5"w
• Framed Dimensions 21.75"h x 17.75"w
• Year Completed Undated
• Notes The Kunama are an ethnic group native to Eritrea primarily living near the border with Ethiopia. Although formerly nomadic, the Kunama are now farmers and pastoralists, living in the Gash-Barka region. The Kunama are a matriarchical led society having a matrilineal inheritance and descent.* * Naty, Alexander. “Environment, Society and the State in Western Eritrea.” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 72, no. 4 (2002): 569–97.
• Artist Zehaie Abraha Ethiopian
• Credit John and Janet Yoder Collection
• Location Library Art Storage E20
• Accession Number 2022.0169
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