IDNO

T.169905.GIJ

Description

A textile wrapper or blanket. (?Tuareg) The weaving is a single piece of mainly balanced plain weave. The warp threads are mainly reddish brown, with at regularly spaced intervals warp-faced narrow bands yellow and black. The weft is mainly reddish brown with some black. The wrapper is hanging from a white rod. The bottom of the wrapper has a end weft band of yellow and black rectangles from which hangs a fringe of the warp threads. [PB 20/07/23]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Eastern Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Jones, Gwilliam Iwan (known as G.I.)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa ?1970s

Collection Name

Jones Collection

Source

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.169905.GIJ - T.169936.GIJ were located together in a Bendicks chocolate box, now numbered C755/.