textile;
sample
- Museum number
- Af1996,07.126
- Description
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Narrow-strip cloth sample (aso oke: 'cloth from up country'). Black cotton and silver lurex weft; warp design composed of silver lurex, black, lime green, beige and white cotton stripes.
- Production date
- 1995 (23rd October)
- Dimensions
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Length: 166 centimetres
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Width: 10 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
- Af1996,07.126