Textile

Museum number:
5-15140
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015140
Accession number:
Acc.4413
Description:
Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. Design depicts storks flying over waves. Imprint on selvedge: "Sotiba-Simpafric-Dacar Wax Veritable." Color: black and blue on beige ground. Length 1.8 meters, width 1.16 meters. From Niger (unspecified). 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.
Donor:
Bruce Max Feldman and Kate Delos
Collection place:
Niger
Verbatim coll. place:
Niger unspecified
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 5-15140, described as Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. Design depicts storks flying over waves. Imprint on selvedge: "Sotiba-Simpafric-Dacar Wax Veritable." Color: black and blue on beige ground. Length 1.8 meters, width 1.16 meters. From Niger (unspecified). 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.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15140, described as Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. Design depicts storks flying over waves. Imprint on selvedge: "Sotiba-Simpafric-Dacar Wax Veritable." Color: black and blue on beige ground. Length 1.8 meters, width 1.16 meters. From Niger (unspecified). 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.

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