Woman's Wrapper or Furnishing Cloth

Textiles

1901/91

Yoruba
Ijebu, Nigeria

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Yoruba
Title: Woman's Wrapper or Furnishing Cloth
Place: Nigeria (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1901–1991
Medium: Cotton and rayon, seventeen strips of plain weave, some with supplementary brocading wefts, some with open areas (formed by non-horizontal wefts), some ikat dyed; pieced
Dimensions: 247.8 × 169.3 cm (97 1/2 × 66 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard Faletti, the Faletti Family Collection
Reference Number: 1991.762

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