a) unfinished cloth; tied, white cotton, plain weave; rolled tightly in center and sewn with raffia and white thread into pattern; 34.5 x 51 cm. b) finished indigo-dyed cotton cloth; leaves and groups of dots; pattern of a); 84.4 x 86.5 cm.
Donor:
Ruth Radmore
Collection place:
Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Abeokuta; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Ruth Radmore
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Raffia (fiber)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1968
Context of use:
finished tie-dyed cloths paired with half-finished knotted pieces. the finished piece shows the pattern produced by the knotted piece.