Cloth
Acquired by colonial administrator HS Burrough between 1903 and 1926.
Julie Hudson, British Museum, 2017:
Iborun? shawl. Two single width panels of hand-spun? cotton sewn together. Supplementary weft float patterns of repeating frogs ? Interspersed at intervals with band of shaki (tufts). In red, black, yellow and white/cream. Rusty nail holes.
Julie Hudson, British Museum, 2017:
Iborun? shawl. Two single width panels of hand-spun? cotton sewn together. Supplementary weft float patterns of repeating frogs ? Interspersed at intervals with band of shaki (tufts). In red, black, yellow and white/cream. Rusty nail holes.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 42/1960/13
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Collection Area Region
- W
- Material
- cotton
- Common Name
- cloth
- Simple Name
- cloth
- Production Town
- Ijebu Ode
- Production County
- SW Nigeria
- Production Country
- Nigeria
- Production Person Surname
- female
- Production Year High
- 1926
