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Yoruba painted cloth picture
Textile

Yoruba painted cloth picture

c.1976-1984

This is a Yoruba cloth picture, painted using felt or marker pens with pencil lines serving as guidelines. It features a crosshatched black and white border and a mosaic-like design, depicting three Y...

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Jubilee Adire
Textile

Jubilee Adire

c. 1963

A resist-dyed cotton Adire fragment in dark blue indigo over light blue. It is machine-hemmed on one edge, with the other edges left raw. The central motif is of a male and female figure set within a ...

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Jubilee Adire
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Jubilee Adire

c. 1963

A piece of resist-dyed cotton fabric in dark blue indigo over light blue, known as an Adire cloth. The piece comprises two lengths sewn together down the middle by machine. Both ends are machine-hemme...

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Adire cloth
Textile

Adire cloth

c.1970-1979

This is a large Yoruba Adire cloth, produced in Ibadan, and made up of two panels sewn together after dyeing. The two panels differ slightly in style from one another. The panels are starch resist d...

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