1966.1.1280

Collection type

Object

Description

Woven cotton textile with sides loosely stitched

Geographical reference

Nigeria

Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria

Southern Nigeria

Cultural groups

Tiv

Person

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Ipswich Museum

PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1966

Date collected

By 1966

Acquisition information

Purchased: 1966

Materials and processes

Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Flax Yarn Plant, Process Openwork Woven, Process Stitched

Dimensions

Width 1080 mm, Length 1740 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1966.1.1280

Research and responses

For full text of Accession Book introduction (from Collections XVA Ipswich Ethnography A) see entry for 1966.1.1 [OD 12/6/2001].

Associated publications

Possibly the object referred to (along perhaps with 1904.54.26) on page 165 of Nigerian Weaving, by Venice Lamb and Judy Holmes (Hertingfordbury: H. A. & V. M. Lamb / Roxford, 1980): 'According to this old weaver, Mr Hiimpke by name, there appeared to be two major categories of traditional Tiv cloth, on a technical analysis. The first was a type of cloth which was decorated with rows of holes or, even, blocks where the weft had been left out altogether. These were cloths of a type probably related to the net-like bubuje cloths so admired by the Gbari. There are good examples of this genre of Tiv cloth both in the Pitt-Rivers [sic] Museum in Oxford and in the Liverpool Museum. The dominant colours are dark blue to black or white, though yellow and red are also possible. These cloths are often garnished with sewn-on cowrie shells, bells of brass and the like.' [JC 3 5 2010]

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