Several round pieces of bone ash cake. These are used as chalks to keep the weavers fingers dry during weaving. These are part of a larger collection of Hausa objects that were loaned to the University of Birmingham by Peter Tunley in 1978. The collection was given as a gift to the University in 2010.

This tall unit comprises six drawers with a lidded top. Intricate relief carving on the top and four sides depicts various animals and forest scenes, including rats, elephants and warthogs.

This piece has been woven on a man's double-heddle narrow loom. It is possible that the material used is machine-spun cotton. There is a striped warp in crimson flecked with red, black, white and yellow and a black weft. The colours here represent the main colour groups in yoruba colour theory; red (pupa), white (funfun) and black (dudu). each of these colour groups represent different concepts of heat, cold and mediating tones respectively. This piece was bequeathed to the Danford Collection by E.H. Duckworth in 1972.

This Kente cloth, worn on important occasions, has been woven on a man's double-heddle loom. It has been made from fifteen strips (10 cm in width). The outer strips are of a plain balanced weave (warp: black. weft: orange). The other strips are either of this type or in a plain balanced weave in reddish tan. At intervals along their length are weft faced bands of varying sizes in blue, white, red, yellow, black, green, with occasional supplementary weft-float patterns in orange or white. The cloth demonstrates some fading in places. It was collected in the 1920s and was presented by Sister Evelyn Bellamy in 1969.

This cloth has been made from narrow-loom woven cotton strips, roughly 4cms wide, and includes alternating warp threads in indigo and white. This 'riga', or man's gown, has been embroidered in white cotton chain-stitch. The front is a symmetrical arrangement of 'dagi' or 'knot' motifs, with parallel rows of stitching around the neck and two false pockets. The back is a single 'dagi' motif. The lining band inside the hem is in cerise and white narrow loom cotton (10 cm strips) cut on the cross (depth 18 cm). It was collected in N. Cameroons before 1928 although the gown itself is Hausa.

This piece has been made in black machine-woven cotton. It carries chain stitched motifs throughout (striped triangles, ropes, arrowheads etc), embroidered by hand in red, yellow and white imported yarn. It was presented to the Danford Collection by Sister Evelyn Bellamy in 1969.

These are part of a larger collection of Hausa objects that were loaned to the University of Birmingham by Peter Tunley in 1978. The collection was given as gift to the University in 2010.

Set of carved wooden shuttles, some with decorative detail, containing cotton spindles. These are part of a larger collection of Hausa objects that were loaned to the University of Birmingham by Peter Tunley in 1978. The collection was given as a gift to the University in 2010.