Woman’s Shawl (Ìpèlé) | Yale University Art Gallery

19th century

Not on view

Medium: Hand-spun wild silk (sányán) and imported silk (àlàárì)
Dimensions: 46 × 66 × 1/8 in. (116.8 × 167.6 × 0.3 cm)
Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund
Accession Number: 2022.15.3
Geography: Òndó, Òndó State, Nigeria, or Ìlọrin, Kwara State, Nigeria
Culture: Yorùbá
Classification: Textiles
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Provenance

With Arikeade Seosan (dealer, died 2012), Ondo, Nigeria; sold to Duncan Clarke (Alfie’s Antiques Market), London, 2005; sold through Emilie Irving (Xenomania), New York, to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2022

Bibliography

James Green et al., Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2022), 52, 54, 223, fig. 26

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Object/Work type

shawls

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