Man's prestige trousers
1930-1940
(not assigned)Nigeria
Medium/TechniqueCotton plain weave (strip woven); embroidered with silk (sanyan) and wool
DimensionsHeight x length: 91.4 x 86.4 cm (36 x 34 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Alan and Suzanne Dworsky, Jeremy and Hanne Grantham and Jane Pappalardo
Accession number2015.2054
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCostumes
Collections
Provenance2009, sold by Africa Direct, Denver, CO, to Jeffrey Spurr, Cambridge, MA; 2015, sold by Jeffrey Spurr to the MFA. (Accession date: May 20, 2015)
second half 19th century
early 20th century
20th century
late 19th–early 20th century
mid-20th century
1940s
19th century
late 19th century
1920s
