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ID number: BIRRC-D0162 Institution: Research and Cultural Collections Named collection: Danford Collection of West African Art and Artefacts Title / Object name: Cloth (Batse-tse) Object type: Textile Place made: Wukari, E. Nigeria Culture: Abakwariga Collector: Danford, John Materials: Batse-tse cloth Measurements: 300 x 200 cm |
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This Hausa cloth (Abakwariga being an alternate name for Hausa) has been produced using a stitched-raphia resist techique. Much like the Yoruba adire cloth, a pattern is made by first tying off parts of the cloth and then the indigo-dyed cloth is stitched with raphia, in this case forming geometric and zoomorphic motifs. This particular piece is made up from thirty narrow loom strips, each 7 cm in width. The extended edge strips on the cloth act as tapes or ties. |
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| Danford, John 1913 1970 | |
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