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ID number: BIRRC-D0349 Institution: Research and Cultural Collections Named collection: Danford Collection of West African Art and Artefacts Title / Object name: Cotton textile Object type: Textile Place made: Illorin, Nigeria Culture: Yoruba Materials: Cotton Measurements: 211 x 75 cm |
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This Yoruba textile is of the 'sanyan' type. Traditionally produced from the silk of the Anaphe moth, the silk loses its shine during processing and the result is usually a pale beige colour. This piece is composed of light and darker beige warp stripes. There is a light beige ground weft with supplementary weft patterns in darker beige. It was possibly bequested by E.H. Duckworth in 1972. |
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