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ID number: BIRRC-D0354 Institution: Research and Cultural Collections Named collection: Danford Collection of West African Art and Artefacts Artist / Maker: Unknown Title / Object name: Handwoven cloth Object type: Textile Place made: Oyo, W. Nigeria Culture: Yoruba Collector: Danford, John Materials: Cotton Measurements: 146 x 82 cm |
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Made from five narrow-loom strips (16 cm wide). Natural cotton warp except one outside strip (half blue/indigo with intermediate stripes). Blue, indigo, natural weft-faced stripes with alternating triangular supplementary weft patterns. Each strip begins and ends with a supplementary weft motif in indigo red and yellow, based on the crocodile. Collected in the 1950s. |
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| Danford, John 1913 1970 | |
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