Textile

Museum number:
5-15141
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015141
Accession number:
Acc.4413
Description:
Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. Alternating stripes of geometric shapes. Color: brown, dark blue, black, red, and white. Imprint on selvedge: "GRAND TEINT ICODI IMPRIME EN COTE D'IVOIRE." Length 178 centimeters, width 115 centimeters. From Niger, made in Ivory Coast. Context of use: Cloth is called "motif cloth." These are typical of cloths made in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Ghana. Peace Corps promoted this, sometimes introducing textile skills incorporating indigenous designs. Kanouri women would buy cloth in 6 meter lengths; 2 yards would become a skirt; 3 yards would be turned into a shirt-shaped long dress which would be worn with the skirt; the last yard would become a headwrap, and/or sling to carry baby. This example was made on Ivory Coast.
Donor:
Bruce Max Feldman and Kate Delos
Collection place:
Niger
Verbatim coll. place:
Niger unspecified (made in Ivory Coast)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15141, described as Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. Alternating stripes of geometric shapes. Color: brown, dark blue, black, red, and white. Imprint on selvedge: "GRAND TEINT ICODI IMPRIME EN COTE D'IVOIRE." Length 178 centimeters, width 115 centimeters. From Niger, made in Ivory Coast. Context of use: Cloth is called "motif cloth." These are typical of cloths made in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Ghana. Peace Corps promoted this, sometimes introducing textile skills incorporating indigenous designs. Kanouri women would buy cloth in 6 meter lengths; 2 yards would become a skirt; 3 yards would be turned into a shirt-shaped long dress which would be worn with the skirt; the last yard would become a headwrap, and/or sling to carry baby. This example was made on Ivory Coast.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15141, described as Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. Alternating stripes of geometric shapes. Color: brown, dark blue, black, red, and white. Imprint on selvedge: "GRAND TEINT ICODI IMPRIME EN COTE D'IVOIRE." Length 178 centimeters, width 115 centimeters. From Niger, made in Ivory Coast. Context of use: Cloth is called "motif cloth." These are typical of cloths made in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Ghana. Peace Corps promoted this, sometimes introducing textile skills incorporating indigenous designs. Kanouri women would buy cloth in 6 meter lengths; 2 yards would become a skirt; 3 yards would be turned into a shirt-shaped long dress which would be worn with the skirt; the last yard would become a headwrap, and/or sling to carry baby. This example was made on Ivory Coast.

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