Shawl
Acquired by colonial administrator HS Burrough between 1903 and 1926.
Julie Hudson, British Museum, 2017:
Single width cloth with white hand or machine-spun cotton warp and weft and supplementary weft float patterns in purple, yellow, black and green machine-spun cotton thread. Twisted warp thread fringes at both ends. Patterns include combs, zigzags and rectangles.
Julie Hudson, British Museum, 2017:
Single width cloth with white hand or machine-spun cotton warp and weft and supplementary weft float patterns in purple, yellow, black and green machine-spun cotton thread. Twisted warp thread fringes at both ends. Patterns include combs, zigzags and rectangles.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 42/1960/12
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Collection Area Region
- W
- Material
- cotton
- Common Name
- shawl
- Simple Name
- shawl
- Production Town
- Ijebu Ode
- Production County
- SW Nigeria
- Production Country
- Nigeria
- Production Person Surname
- female
- Production Year High
- 1926
