Woman's wrapper
before 1937
Object PlaceNigeria
Medium/TechniqueCotton plain weave, ikat dyed (strip-woven)
DimensionsLength x width: 175.3 x 125.7 cm (69 x 49 1/2 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Alan and Suzanne Dworsky, Jeremy and Hanne Grantham and Jane Pappalardo
Accession number2015.2056
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Provenance1930s, said to have been purchased by a private collector traveling in Africa; 1986, sold at the New Hampshire estate sale of this collector to to Jeffrey Spurr, Cambridge, MA; 2015, sold by Jeffrey Spurr to the MFA. (Accession date: May 20, 2015)
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