textile;
sample
- Museum number
- Af1996,07.108
- Description
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Narrow-strip cloth sample (aso oke: 'cloth from up country'). Yellow cotton weft; warp design composed of yellow cotton, silver and purple lurex stripes.
- Production date
- 1995 (12th October)
- Dimensions
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Length: 187 centimetres
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Width: 10.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Eth.Doc.144. All samples were collected by the vendor between 7.6.95 and 5.6.96 from a single compound of weavers, Ile Ekejo, in the Adesina area of Oyo town, in Oyo state, Nigeria. These samples represent one piece of each design woven in the compound within the year. Information on the weavers of individual samples or the looms producing the same samples are available in the Eth.Doc.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1996,07.108