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Wrapper (aṣọ-òkè iro),
late 19th century
Yorùbá artist
2018-128
The smaller size of this wrapper indicates it belonged to a woman, although it was woven on a double-heddle loom by a male weaver. As is often the case on early examples of this type, the weaver has adapted his arrow-topped rectangular motif from the distinctively shaped wooden writing tablets used by young male scholars at Qur’anic schools in Nigeria. Today Yorùbá elders call this type of cloth omolangidi after a small doll-like sculpture also modeled on the shape of the Qur’anic writing board.
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Title
Wrapper (aṣọ-òkè iro)
Dates
late 19th century
Maker
Yorùbá artist
Medium
Silk and cotton
Dimensions
162 × 130 cm (63 3/4 × 51 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Hugh Leander Adams, Mary Trumbull Adams and Hugh Trumbull Adams Princeton Art Fund, and anonymous gift
Object Number
2018-128
Place Collected
Africa, Nigeria, Ondo
Type
Materials
Techniques
Subject
Unrecorded owner, Ondo, Nigeria, by 2016; [Adire African Textiles, London, UK, acquired from the above, circa 2016]; Princeton University Art Museum, by purchase from the above, 2018
