cloth
- Museum number
- Af1952,20.49
- Description
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Cloth: three panels of hand-woven imported European cotton loosely tacked together. The panels have identical warp-faced patterns of brown cotton stripes arranged against a white background; the edge brown band is very wide, the rest has much narrower lines. The weft is of white cotton. The warp ends have been twisted to form tassels.
- Production date
- 1894-1908 (between)
- Dimensions
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Length: 292 centimetres (including fringe)
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Width: 157 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The acquisition register attributed this cloth to north Nigeria. Dr Duncan Clarke thinks that it is probably Yoruba work.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1952
- Acquisition notes
- Af1952,20.1 to 142 were collected by Sir Raymond Menendez during the years he spent in West Africa between 1894 and 1908. There is no record of when or where he acquired the objects, and the provenances have been supplied by BM curators.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1952,20.49