Woman's Wrapper
Yoruba people, Ibadan, Nigeria, Nigeria, Western Africa, Africa
collected 1977
Indigo dyed commercial cotton
Overall: 76 3/8 x 69 1/2 in. (194 x 176.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Adrian Walser, Class of 1932
178.30.25837
Geography/Culture
Africa, Western Africa, Nigeria
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Classification
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
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.
African Textiles, History 12, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-April 23, 1993.
Publication History
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.
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.
Provenance
Collected by Adrian Andrew Walser (1910-1994) in the Oje market, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1977; given to present collection, 1978.
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