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Blanket (Nigeria), early 20th century
Blanket composed of six narrow bands sewn together, with a braided cord attached on two sides. Patterned with bands of black and rust-red on a white ground. Brocaded with small…
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Fragment (Nigeria), before 1937
Asymmetrical arrangement of embroidered patterns including rectangles with diamond lattice, triangles, and ovals with eyelet fill, slender leaf-like shapes with solid twill-like and diamond patterns. Embroidered in white on blue…
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Textile (Nigeria), 1967
One of a group of fabrics representing the Silver Jubilee of King George and Queen Mary of England in 1935. Diagonal bands of butterfies and the words “LABALABA TO BA…
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Strip (Nigeria), early to mid-20th century
Sample of a fabric called sanyan, which is made from wild, local silk. Narrow band of light brown with a single off-white stripe in the center. The warp is of…
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Strip (Nigeria), early 20th century
A narrow-woven sample of a fabric called alaari, which is made from spun waste silk, combined with locally grown, hand-spun cotton. Violet ground with a green stripe in the center,…
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Strip (Nigeria), early to mid-20th century
Sample of a fabric called etu, in which deep indigo blue yarns of hand-spun cotton are woven with a fine check of machine-spun yarns dyed lighter blue.
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Textile (Nigeria), mid- 20th century
Length of deep indigo–dyed cotton with an all-over grid of diamonds, each filled with horizontal or vertical bars, in light blue. Design created through the stitched-resist method.
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Textile (Nigeria), mid- 20th century
Adire textile with a checkerboard of rectangles, each filled with pattern reserved in white on a deep indigo blue ground. The patterns include checkerboards, lattices, herringbones, pinwheels, trees, flowers and…
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Wrapper (Nigeria), late 20th century
Narrow horizontal stripe in various shades of blue. The wider bands are patterned with small dots, stars or chevrons, and are separated by two plain bands. The piece is composed…
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Pelete Bite Wrapper, Pelete Bite, 1930s
Wrapper of fine cotton with a center panel and a wide border on each long side. The center panel has a small blue and white check with white threads withdrawn…
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