Woman's Wrapper
Unidentified Yoruba maker
collected 1977
Indigo dyed commercial cotton
Overall: 76 3/8 × 69 1/2 in. (194 × 176.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Adrian Walser, Class of 1932
178.30.25837
Geography
Place Made: Ibadan, Nigeria, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
African Textiles, History 12, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-April 23, 1993.
Visual Proof: The Experience of Mathematics in Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 11-December 12, 1999.
Publication History
D. I. Wallace, editor, Visual Proof: The Experience of Mathematics in Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1999, ill. p. 1, listed, p. 62, no. 15.
Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 31.
Provenance
Collected by Adrian Andrew Walser (1910-1994) in the Oje market, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1977; given to present collection, 1978.
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