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Aso-Oke cloth strip
Textile

Aso-Oke cloth strip

20th century

A piece of West African narrow cloth or Aso-Oke. Woven in brown with a yellow stripe and decorative pattern of holes. Both ends and one long edge have been hemmed by machine using black thread. A...

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Aso-Oke cloth strip
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Aso-Oke cloth strip

20th century

A piece of West African narrow cloth or Aso-Oke. An openwork strip in purple, blue, green, brown and white warp threads. The decorative effect has been achieved by the use of regularly spaced holes...

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Aso-Oke cloth strip
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Aso-Oke cloth strip

20th Century

A piece of West African narrow cloth, or Aso-Oke. The white ground is striped with silver metallic Lurex type thread supplementary floating threads, and decorated with a pattern of geometric shapes a...

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Aso-Oke tunic
Textile

Aso-Oke tunic

20th century

This item consists of several strips of Nigerian narrow cloth, or Aso-Oke, which have been partially sewn together to form the beginnings of the construction of a women's tunic. The fabric itself is ...

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