Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Wrapper (Nigeria), 1950s

  Wrapper with a grid of large Xs on a field of small circles. Design created through tied- and stitched-resist patterning methods, in white on a deep blue ground.

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  Adire Wrapper (Nigeria), ca. 1960

  Indigo-dyed wrapper patterned with stitched resist. The field has a checkerboard layout of alternating design squares, one containing a pyramid-like shape of stacked lines, and the other a sunburst or…

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  Textile (Nigeria), ca. 1960

  Textile with borders on four sides and a densely patterned field. Two oval medallions with figures of a man and crowned woman, surrounded by figures, animals and plants. On the…

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  Woman’s Wrapper (Nigeria), early to mid-20th century

  Wrapper with bands of geometric pattern separated by four black stripes on a white ground. Pattern is a repeating figure of a triangle with three-pronged appendages. The black supplementary wefts…

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  Woman’s Wrapper (Nigeria), early 20th century

  Dark brown cloth, fringed on both warp ends, with bands of supplementary weft patterning in yellow rayon. Bands of horizontal stripes, checkerboard pattern, and small huts, with a crocodile in…

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  Woman’s Head Wrap (Nigeria), early to mid-20th century

  Head wrap formed of seven narrow strips sewn together selvedge to selvedge. Each strip has a single light blue vertical stripe on a tan background. Patterned with regularly-spaced geometric motifs…

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  Woman’s Head Wrap (Nigeria), early to mid-20th century

  Woman’s head wrap with vertical stripes of purple, tan, red, yellow and light blue, crossed with horizontal bands of supplementary weft patterning in lozenge and checkerboard designs, in yellow, green…

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  Woman’s Head Wrap (Nigeria), early to mid-20th century

  Woman’s head tie of light tan and green striped fabric patterned by bands containing zigzag motifs in alternating yellow and blue. Fringed at both ends.

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  Woman’s Head Wrap Or Baby Carrier (Nigeria), mid- 20th century

  Length of white cotton with three broad stripes in black and tan. Fringed at both ends.

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  Strip (Ghana), mid- 20th century

  Narrow woven strip with bands of pattern, including stair-steps, interlocking squares, and zig-zags, in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with…