patchwork skirt made of multiple pieces of narrow-loomed fabric, 12 horizontal bands of many different and woven patterns and colors. heavy fabric band sewed to upper edge on inside.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Skirts (garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
clothing
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
at hem— width 178.5 centimeters, length 129 centimeters, and width 169 centimeters