cloth;
garment
- Museum number
- 2018,2036.15
- Description
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Cloth (aso oke); woman's wrap-around garment. Composed of fifteen narrow strips, hand sewn together. Warp stripes in handspun cotton in white and various shades of indigo. Some alaari (magenta silk) in the weft. Hemmed at both ends.
- Production date
- 1900 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 204 centimetres
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Width: 155 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The asymmetric layout on these warp striped cloths echoes that used on many two panel Yoruba women's weave cloths. See comment on another such cloth, 2018,2036.14.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good
- Acquisition date
- 28 Nov 2018
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by the donor in December 2011 from African textile dealer/collector Duncan Clarke, London.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2018,2036.15
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: I.A15 (Griffiths-Rudoe collection number)