cloth
- Museum number
- Af1954,23.933
- Description
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Cloth (Akwete woman’s weave), a single width hand-woven from European machine-spun cotton. The warp and ground weft threads are of white cotton, with every sixth warp thread being black; these black threads are used to hold in place the bundles of threads used for the supplementary weft which are also black. The supplementary pattern forms columns of eight 'patchwork' areas across the cloth, in the centre of which is placed either a cross or a diamond; in addition there are three bands with 'ikaki' (tortoise) patterns that run across the width of the whole cloth.
- Production date
- 1915-1928 (between)
- Dimensions
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Length: 183 centimetres (including fringe)
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Width: 97.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1954:
"Cotton cloth woven from manufactured white yarn with an overwoven repeat pattern in black, 38" x 61" with a 5" fringe at each end.
Old label: "Price 15/-. 23/6/1928. Woven cotton, Akweta [sic] cloth."
The date of Wellcome's acquisition is the same as that of Af1954,23.651, which shows that this and the following cloth (Af1954,23.934) were also bought from M D W Jeffreys.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1954,23.933
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 71737 (Wellcome Collection Number)