textile;
wrapper
- Museum number
- Af1934,0307.142
- Description
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Woman’s wrapper (aso oke) formed of ten strips hand-woven with two different designs, one warp-faced, the other primarily weft-faced, hand-woven and hand-sewn together along the selvages. All the thread is handspun and locally dyed. The ten strips have been arranged to form two identical groups of five strips which are repeated twice. Each group is made up of five strips, in which three warp-faced stripes alternate with two strips with supplementary weft float designs. The warp-faced strips are striped with magenta silk (alaari) and yellow, white and two shades of indigo cotton. The weft-faced strips have a uniform narrow check pattern of indigo and white cotton, formed by the crossing of the blue and white threads of the warp and weft, which forms the background to eight blocks of supplementary float weft of alaari silk (the alaari is not visible on the verso); three of these are in the shape of Koran boards, a fourth is in the shape of a drum and the other four are groups of parallel lines. The cloth has not been hemmed.
- Production date
- 1880-1913 (between)
- Dimensions
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Length: 164 centimetres
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Width: 110 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Recorded in the 1934 acquisition register as coming from Ilorin, and as having been ‘Purchased some years before 1913 for 3/6d’.
Af1934,0307.137, 142, 143 in the Beving collection have very similar layouts and designs.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1934
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1934,0307.142