adire
- Museum number
- Af1971,35.4
- Description
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Adire cloth: composed of four uneven lengths of machine plain woven European cotton machine sewn together . The textile is decorated using the tie-dyed method. The producer has tied the desired pattern into the textile before dyeing the textile indigo. The pattern is composed of nine regularly spaced spirals on a background of small circles. This pattern is called AKETE or the 'Caps.' The hem is machine sewn.
- Production date
- 1971
- Dimensions
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Length: 174 centimetres
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Width: 128 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Part of the collection made by Jane Barbour of Adire, indigo resist-dyed cloths, made by the Yoruba in Nigeria (see Af1971,35.1).
AKETE ‘Caps.’ Purchased in ADO-EKITI in January 1971. "Probably made in ABEOKUTA but for the rural market : it would not be seen on sale at OJE (market ABEOKUTA). It will be noticed that the cloth is smaller and coarser" (John Picton, Register 1971).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1979-1982 Dec-Nov, London, Museum of Mankind (rooms 7 & 9), African Textiles.
1983 Jun-Dec, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, African Textiles.
- Acquisition date
- 1971
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1971,35.4
