Commemorative Textile
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Sep 2010
name: label: Collector
content: Irene Petty
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of African Art
notes: label: Notes
content: Hot pink canvas fabric with black print. Stylized people, plants, and animals, including birds, lions, and elephants. Stencilled text repeats across the length of fabric near the bottom edge and at center. Text is difficult to read, possibly "ANKANKURKURIMOGA" (?) and "ANKURIMOGA" (?). Textile is made from two lengths of fabric, sewn together at the selveges to make a wider piece. One end is cut, the other end is rolled and hemmed. The style of this cloth looks like the Yoruba "Jubilee" or "Oloba" pattern of adire eleko (a dye technique using indigo and a starch resist), except that it is black printing on hot pink background, rather than white resist on indigo background.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nigeria (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yoruba (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2054366
label: USNM Number
content: E432605-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Textile
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: ca. 236 cm
label: Width
content: ca. 181 cm