Ogboni Society Prestige Shoulder Cloth
1930s
Object PlaceIjebu Ode, Ijebu Yoruba, Nigeria
Medium/TechniqueCotton plain weave with supplementary or embroidered wefts, knotted
DimensionsHeight x width: 109.9 × 40 × 1.3 cm (43 1/4 × 15 3/4 × 1/2 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Alan and Suzanne Dworsky, Jeremy and Hanne Grantham and Jane Pappalardo
Accession number2015.2052
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Collections
Provenance2000, sold by the retail store of the Museum for African Art, New York, to Jeffrey Spurr, Cambridge, MA; 2015, sold by Jeffrey Spurr to the MFA. (Accession date: May 20, 2015)
mid 20th century
late 19th century
late 19th century
mid 20th century
about 1860
about 1875
about 1865
about 1835
about 1850
18th century