adire;
cloth
- Museum number
- Af1980,38.12
- Description
-
Indigo resist-dyed adire woman's wrapper (adire eleko), on two panels of factory-made cotton machine-sewn together. Each panel is divided into three by six squares, producing a total of 36 squares. Each square is filled by a hand-drawn pattern in starch resist which was then indigo dyed. There are three patterns, birds, tortoises and a comb. The producer’s mark ‘LA’ is in the margin. The hems are machine sewn.
- Production date
- 1930-1940 (circa)
- Dimensions
-
Length: 208 centimetres
-
Width: 164 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This is the only adire cloth of this pattern in the British Museum collection. It was made in the 1930s, and presumably by the time that the main BM collection was formed after World War II, this pattern had gone out of fashion.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1980
- Acquisition notes
- Af1980,38.1 to 18 were purchased from J D Clarke, and are recorded in the purchase book as "a small collection of Fulani blankets and other textiles (Yoruba and Igbirra) purchased in Nigeria in the 1930s."
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1980,38.12