Smock

Description

Smock and trousers, for boys, beige cotton with white stripes and gold embroidery: Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Ibadan, Yoruba people, 1976

Museum reference

A.1977.180 A

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Smock, Trousers

Production information

Unknown
Ibadan, Western State, Nigeria, Western Africa

Date

1976

Style / Culture

Yoruba

Materials

Cotton, Rayon

Physical description

Beige cotton, dyed to look like the wild silk 'sanyan', embroidered with gold rayon thread

Exhibitions

• Patterns of Life (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Colours of Africa

On display

national museum of scotland »
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world cultures, patterns of life