Textile
72-28-22
From: Africa | West Africa | Nigeria | Ibadan
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 72-28-22 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Africa | West Africa | Nigeria | Ibadan |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Fine cotton (?), fringed at ends. Background color is olive green with six woven in stipes of dk. greenish-blue. Decorated with ten horizontal bands of overweaving in bright green and white silk or nylon multi-stranded thread. Each band consists of two bands of overweaving, one all white, one all green, very close together. Pattern is exactly the same in both, and is sectioned by the vertical stripes. Good condition. (Over for drawing). |
| Length | 244 cm |
| Width | 60.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. J. D. Kingsley in memory of her late husband, 1972 |
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