Cloth
Maker
Unknown, Yoruba
MediumCloth
Dimensions29” W x 38 1/2” L
Credit LineGift of the Herman Copen Trust
Object numberAF2002.1430.COP
DescriptionResist dye in fuchsia and indigo with an indigo border all around. It shows two figures in indigo: on the left a woman, naked from the waist up, is holding an offering to the man on the right. She is wearing a fancy hat, necklace and a skirt adorned in horizontal bands of fuchsia and indigo. The man has a hat on, a shirt with vertical stripes in fuchsia and indigo, knee length indigo pants with large polka dots in fuchsia with a white outline. He is carrying a short cane.
ClassificationsTextiles
Collections
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Unknown, Yoruba
Unknown, Igbo
