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Nigeria Gallery Page One

CODE#: NW410

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Measures: 70ins x 47, 178cm x 119

Exceptionally rare example of Nigerian women's weaving decorated using a supplementary floating warp, as opposed to the more typical supplementary weft. The white supplementary warp floats back and forth over the two faces of the cloth three stripes in a regular over/under pattern which is interrupted at regular intervals to create geometric and anthropomorphic motifs. Although this piece and the two related examples I am aware of were collected in the Yoruba speaking southwest of Nigeria it is possible that they are the product of an as yet unidentified weaving style in the so-called Middle Belt of the country.  This cloth is in very good condition with a few minor faint marks. It dates from circa 1920-50. 

(c) Duncan Clarke, Version 11/18/2008