cloth
- Museum number
- Af1913,1013.41
- Description
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Cloth, a long rectangle hand-woven from raffia and hand-spun cotton. The warp is of undyed raffia interspersed at regular intervals with doubled lines of cotton dyed indigo. The weft is only of cotton, either white or dyed black, the black being used to create a pattern of irregular stripes across the width of the cloth. The raffia and indigo warps at both ends of the cloth have been left unwoven, and form a long fringe.
- Dimensions
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Length: 211 centimetres (including fringe)
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Width: 52 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This is from the collection of Nigerian artefacts formed by Charles and Olive Temple. He worked as a colonial official in northern Nigeria from 1901 to 1917, and with his wife wrote a book, ‘Notes on the tribes, provinces, emirates, and states of the northern provinces of Nigeria’ (1919). The acquisition register records that it was acquired in ‘Offa market, Ilorin, but was probably made further south’. Offa is now in Kwara state, and is on the railway between Lagos and Kano. It is a Yoruba town, well-known as a centre of weaving, and this has always been described as a Yoruba cloth. It was doubtless new when acquired..
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1913,1013.41