- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Native cotton cloth, natural whitish colour, the front with elaborate geometrical design in red, blue and yellow.
- Geographical reference
- Southern Nigeria Ijebu / Bamenda District
- Cultural groups
- Ijebu Yoruba
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1935
- Date collected
- 1930-1935
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1942
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Dyed, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Width: max 800 mm, Length: max 2220 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.13.1580 Other numbers: 585
- Research and responses
Identified (10 6 1997) by Lisa Aronson (Associate Professor of Art History at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York) as an Ijebu Yoruba title cloth (aso olona). (See, for example, 'Ijebu Yoruba Aso Olona: A Contextual and Historical Overview', by Lisa Aronson, in African Arts, Vol. XXV, no. 3 (July 1992), pp. 52-63, 101-2; which illustrates a number of examples and provides diagrams of some of the motifs on the PRM example.) Aronson did not think it surprising that an Ijebu Yoruba cloth should have been obtained by Jeffreys among the Bamenda. Trade in such materials was common by the 1930s. [JC 11 9 1997]
Lisa Aronson confirmed the above details in an e-mail dated 3 November 1997. She also emphasized that the float decoration is not embroidered (as noted in accession book; see above) but woven (printout of e-mail in RDF). [JC 11 11 1997]
1942.13.1580
Native cotton cloth, natural whitish colour, the front with elaborate geometrical design in red, blue and yellow.
On display
1942.13.1580
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