Cloth
Acquired by colonial administrator HS Burrough between 1903 and 1926.
Julie Hudson, British Museum, 2017:
Aso olona cloth (artful cloth of many designs); Imade up of four strips each 41-42cm wide, loosely hand-sewn together. Using hand & machine-spun cotton thread. Densely worked supplementary weft float designs include stylised frogs and crocodiles, liminal creatures that can move on land and through water. Characteristically composed of three or four strips with weft float designs running acrss horizontally. Traditionally Ijebu cloths have natural white or indigo backgrounds with red, black and white weft float patterns.
Julie Hudson, British Museum, 2017:
Aso olona cloth (artful cloth of many designs); Imade up of four strips each 41-42cm wide, loosely hand-sewn together. Using hand & machine-spun cotton thread. Densely worked supplementary weft float designs include stylised frogs and crocodiles, liminal creatures that can move on land and through water. Characteristically composed of three or four strips with weft float designs running acrss horizontally. Traditionally Ijebu cloths have natural white or indigo backgrounds with red, black and white weft float patterns.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 42/1960/3
- 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
