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1932.39.1

Embroidered long wide-sleeved coat.


1932.39.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Embroidered long wide-sleeved coat.
Geographical reference
Cultural groups
Yoruba
Person
Field collector Percy Amaury Talbot
PRM source Percy Amaury Talbot
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1932
Date collected
By 1932
Acquisition information
Donated: 1932
Materials and processes
Material Textile, Process Embroidered, Process Woven
Object numbers
Accession number: 1932.39.1
Associated publications
Illustrated in black and white as figure 62 on page 46 of Nigerian Weaving, by Venice Lamb and Judy Holmes (Hertingfordbury: H. A. & V. M. Lamb / Roxford, 1980). Caption (same page) reads: '62 A Yoruba style gbariye with sleeves, woven in etu. Shows fine pako design embroidery. This was collected by Talbot in 1932. Pitt-Rivers [sic] Museum, Oxford.' [JC 3 5 2010]

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