Prestige Robe (Agbádá) with “Two Knives” Design (Aska Biyu)

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20th century

Medium: Cotton and silk; strip weave with warp striping and buttonhole, chain-stitch, and patterned-couch embroidery
Dimensions: 50 × 109 7/16 in. (127 × 278 cm)
Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund
Accession Number: 2023.31.9
Geography: Northern region, Nigeria
Culture: Yorùbá
Classification: Apparel/Costume
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Provenance

With Nangu Ndiaye (dealer, died 2008), Brussels, by about 1978–1990 [see note 1]; sold to Pierre Loos (Galerie Ambre-Congo), Brussels, about 1978–1990; sold to Andres Moraga (San Francisco Tribal), Berkeley, Calif., by 2013; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2023

Note 1: According to Pierre Loos, Nangu Ndiaye acquired riga directly from wealthy Hausa families in Nigeria. (Pierre Loos, letter to the Gallery, January 31, 2023, curatorial file)

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