wrapper
- Museum number
- 2018,2036.260
- Description
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Woman's wrapper; composed of sixteen narrow strips, hand sewn together. Repeating indigo-dyed and white cotton warp stripes. Weft-faced blocks in indigo and red cotton. Supplementary weft float geometric and figurative patterns in red, white, indigo and yellow cotton. Hand sewn hems at both ends.
- Production date
- 1900-1940 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 198 centimetres
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Width: 118 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The use of thriple weft blosck might suggest that this cloth is early, but this may not be correct. Cloths with the same pattern of a single bold indigo warp stripe repeated along each strip are also found using a yellow background.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 28 Nov 2018
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by the donor in July 2014 from African textile dealer/collector Duncan Clarke in London.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2018,2036.260
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: II.N33 (Griffiths-Rudoe collection number)