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- David Heathcote
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David Heathcote
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primary name: Heathcote, David
- Details
- individual; collector; academic/intellectual; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1931-
- Biography
- Full name David Hunter Heathcote. Painter, trained in Canterbury and at the Slade; worked in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1959 at Peterhouse public school and St Augustine's Mission in Panhalonga. Moved to Zaria in northern Nigeria in 1968 as Head of Art History at the Ahmadu Bello University, where he began research and fieldwork on Hausa embroidered dress which issued in a PhD. Over period of ten years made significant collections of textiles, costume and leatherwork, which he passed on to the BM. In 1976 his Hausa material featured in the Arts of the Hausa exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute (part of the World of Islam festival), and some was lent to the Barbican exhibition of African textiles in 1995.
For his Hausa leatherwork (Af1999,16.1 to 47) see his article of 1974; for his Hausa embroidery see 2008,2025.1 to 190 and his Notebook (now Eth.Doc 574; this also contains a short autobiography).
- Bibliography
- 'A Leatherworker of Zaria City', The Nigerian Field, xxxix 1974, No.1 pp.12-16, and No.3, pp.99-117.
‘Hausa Embroidered Dress’, in ‘African Arts’, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Winter, 1972), pp. 12-19+82+84
‘A Hausa Charm Gown’, in ‘Man’, New Series, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Dec., 1974), pp. 620-624. [Apropos BM 2008,2025.23]