garment;
shawl(?)
- Museum number
- 2018,2036.390
- Description
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Man's prestige garment, shawl ?; made of cotton. Woven in thirteen narrow strips, hand sewn together. Hand spun cotton warp and weft, dyed indigo throughout. Supplementary weft stripes along border of warp strips at both ends. Twisted warp thread fringes at both ends.
- Production date
- 20thC(late) (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 207 centimetres (Including fringes)
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Width: 118 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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As posted by Clarke with information from Malian master dyer Aboubakar Fofana (Clarke 2016 above) this is possibly a diisa, a young man's prestige shawl, given to him by his mother on marriage. It might be worn around the hips, wrapped round the head or across the shoulders. It would be used as a shroud when he died.
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Indigo shawls and wrappers in Burkina Faso are made by a specific group called the Yarse and also by other groups of Marka dyers. The Yarse speak Mossi but are of Marka origin. (pers. comm. Patricia Gerimont to Duncan Clarke (Clarke 2016 above).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 28 Nov 2018
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by the donor in November 2007 from John Gillow, African textile dealer/writer, in London.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2018,2036.390
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: III.K6 (Griffiths-Rudoe collection number)