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Cloth

Maker Unknown, Yoruba

MediumCloth

Dimensions10 1/2” W x 88” L

Credit LineGift of the Herman Copen Trust

Object numberAF2002.1447.COP

DescriptionDark red hand woven cloth with a variety of embroidered designs starting with a linear design in bands of black, yellow and white, followed by a strip of colorful faces attached to a vase figure enclosed in geometric patterns of bright colors. In the center there is a large turquoise crocodile followed by another large geometric design and a yellow fish ending in repeated linear bands of black, yellow and white. Four flaps of the same cloth with simple bands of white are attached by three sets of stitches to the end of the cloth.

ClassificationsTextiles

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

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