Textile

Collection type: Object
Description: Textile
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Northern Nigeria
Cultural groups: Tiv
Person: Field collector E.F. Martin; PRM source E.F. Martin
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1904
Date collected: Before 1904
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1904
Materials and processes: Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Woven
Object numbers: Accession number: 1904.54.26
Associated publications: Possibly referred to (along with 1966.1.1280) 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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