apron;
dance-costume
- Museum number
- Af1953,12.1
- Description
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Apron, dance costume; made of cloth, leather; isosceles trapezoid-shaped piece of cloth-covered leather with three U-shaped pieces of cloth-covered leather hanging down from it; piece of leather tied to each top corner of trapezoid for fastening around waist; one side of trapezoid covered with wide bands of red cotton, brown velvet and pale pink cotton separated by thin stripes of white leather sewn on with blue and violet thread; opposite side of trapezoid covered with pink cotton decorated with green curvilinear designs sewn on with yellow thread; on one side, two of the three U-shapes decorated with pale, medium and dark blue striped cotton, the third with pale and medium blue cotton joined together at diagonal angle; on opposite side, one U-shape decorated with horizontal stripes of red cotton and brown velvet accented with green and white embroidered leather, other two U-shapes decorated with horizontal stripes of yellow brocade, purple brocade and pink cotton (which is accented with vertical stripes of embroidered white leather); braided blue and white cotton cord sewn at each bottom corner of trapezoid; white leather fringe around bottom edge of each U-shape.
- Dimensions
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Length: 44 centimetres
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Width: 71 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1953:
Composite apron of pieces of European & native cloth red, blue, green, yellow etc. & of leather ( the front flap being red & green with blue embroidery
[Probably part of a dance costume for a secret society such as Egungun or Gelede,
YORUBA, W.NIGERIA.]
(or Sierra Leone?)
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
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Used at: Egungun masquerade (?)
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Used at: Gelede (?)
- Acquisition date
- 1953
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1953,12.1
