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Woman's Wrapper (Aso Oke)
Woman's Wrapper (Aso Oke)
Yoruba
1925–1975
Medium
15 strips joined: cotton and viscose-rayon, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and areas of discontinuous wefts forming openwork
Dimensions
207.3 × 156.5 cm (81 1/2 × 61 5/8 in.)
Genre
Costumes
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
yoruba
Tags
cotton (textile)
yoruba
rayon
african
arts of Africa
Coastal West Africa
African Textiles
costume
plain weaving
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