skirt;
headscarf
- Museum number
- 2021,2022.1.a-b
- Description
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Woman's wrap-around skirt (a) and headscarf (b); made of cotton and wild silk. Skirt woven in fourteen narrow strips, headscarf in seven narrow strips, all hand sewn together. Plain weave with white cotton weft; warp stripes in dark indigo-dyed cotton, white cotton and beige-coloured wild silk. Hems on skirt and headscarf rolled and tacked.
- Production date
- 2020 (July-Sept)
- Dimensions
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Length: 180 centimetres (a)
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Length: 181 centimetres (b)
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Width: 123 centimetres (a (max))
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Width: 61 centimetres (b)
- Curator's comments
- This wrap-around skirt and headscarf were made between July-September 2020 in Ba village, Mouhoun Province, Burkina Faso by weaver Hezita Dayo. The textile is named: Mogo fi min bo. The wild silk used in these textiles was collected from Anaphe moth cocoons found in the Cote d'Ivoire.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Excellent; unused.
- Acquisition date
- 2021
- Acquisition notes
- Collected in Burkina Faso by Salif Sawadogo and Lonsani Dayo, research assistants on the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) project, led by Dr Laurence Douny, on wild silk production in West Africa.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2021,2022.1.a-b