textile
- Museum number
- Af1956,27.225
- Description
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Textile: Akwete: ikaki the tortoise pattern: single width of plain woven dyed indigo, yellow, red dyed cotton warps and dyed indigo cotton wefts. This combination of warps and wefts is used to create an indigo cloth with two bands, one at each side, of alternating yellow and red stripes. The cloth is embellished with dyed yellow, red, blue and bleached white cotton supplementary weft work. This supplementary weft work is used to create 11 weft bands of decoration with geometric patterning forming check, triangles, diamonds and geometric animal figures. The cloth is finished by a fringe of unworked warps.
- Dimensions
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Length: 206 centimetres (including fringe)
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Width: 114.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1956:
Cotton cloth (AKWETE)
Cat. no. 80
YORUBA, Nigeria
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1995, London, Barbican Art Gallery, The Art of African Textiles
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1956,27.225
