cloth
- Museum number
- Af1980,07.8
- Description
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Cloth (wrapper) made of two panels of hand-spun and hand-sewn cotton, loosely tacked together along the centre. The panels are identical: each has white cotton in both warp and weft, and gives an overall appearance of white, with the exception of two thin warp bands of colour that run down the centre of each. These bands are yellow flanked by two lines of blue.
- Production date
- 20thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 197 centimetres
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Width: 136 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Although Af1980,07.1 to 20 is described as "a small collection of ethnographic items mainly from Uganda and South Africa, purchased from Mrs F Stevenson", this cloth comes from West Africa, being two panels of women's weave from cotton - techniques and materials not known to have been used in east or south Africa. Dr Duncan Clarke thinks that it was made by Hausa weavers in northern Nigeria.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1980
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1980,07.8