Woman's Wrapper, Coronation Cloth
Unidentified Yoruba maker
collected 1977
Indigo dyed commercial cotton, Adire
Overall: 63 3/8 × 68 7/8 in. (161 × 175 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Adrian Walser, Class of 1932
178.30.25836
Geography
Place Made: Nigeria, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Research Area
Africa
On view
Course History
HIST 66, AAAS 15, History of Africa since 1800, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
Exhibition History
African Textiles, History 12, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-April 23, 1993.
Provenance
Collected by Adrian Andrew Walser (1910-1994) in the Oje market, Ibanda, Nigeria, 1977; given to present collection, 1978.
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