Object Details
- Label Text
- This outfit of a hunter's tunic, narrow pants and tall, folding hat is for a boy. It copies the style of a man's outfit, but lacks the more expensive outer robe. Typically worn by a boy from an important family, these garments may have been given to a foreigner as a gift. Garments of such high status and quality are traditionally given as a gift when the gift giver wants to show how important he and the recipient are.
- Description
- Child's drawstring waist pants of narrow strip cloth, with green metallic thread insets in reddish asoke strips, indigo with white stripes, and embroidery on the side of the pants at the bottom of the legs.
- Provenance
- Chief Adebaye Mojebodunmi, Lagos, Nigeria, -- to 1956
- Stephen Belcher, received as a gift from Chief Adebaye Mojebodunmi, Lagos, Nigeria, 1956 to 1973
- Exhibition History
- BIG/small, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., January 17-July 23, 2006
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Yoruba artist
- Date
- ca. 1956
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Belcher
- Medium
- Cotton, dye
- Dimensions
- H x W: 73 x 41.9 cm (28 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Textile and Fiber Arts
