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Total number of records: 94

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Textiles	89
Books and printed items	5

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
International Textile Collection	89
Liddle Collection	1

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Nigeria	94
Ilorin	45
Yorubaland	25
Ogwashi Uku	7
Bendel State	5
United Kingdom	3
Northern Bendel State	3
Kano	3
Bida	2
Manchester	2

Count of People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Abc Company	3
Osofisan, Femi	2
Wood-Robinson, Valerie	1
Mockler-Ferryman, Augustus Ferryman (1856-1930)	1
Day, Charles Russell (1860-1900)	1
Clark-Bekederemo, J P (1935-)	1
Day, Charles Russell	1
Macdonald, Claude Maxwell, Sir, 1852-1915	1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1800	1
From 1900	93

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1899	1
Up to 1999	92

Textile:
ITC 2014.102.1

Akwuete cloth

c.1964-1965

This is a handwoven Akwuete cloth, woven by a woman on a vertical loom. (Akwuete is a town in eastern Igboland, southeastern Nigeria.) The cloth consists of two broad panels stitched together, with fr...

Textile:
ITC 2014.79.1

Aso-Oke outfit: head tie

c.1976-1984

This is a large, predominantly blue handwoven Aso-Oke head tie, woven in Ilorin, northern Yorubaland. Aso-Oke is a highly prized form of Yoruba handwoven cloth. This cloth is made up of six narrow st...

Textile:
ITC 2014.107.1

Aniocha cloth

1966-1967

An Aniocha cloth toga, part of an outfit with a matching wrapper (ITC 2014.107.2), made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Re...

Textile:
ITC 2014.100

Bida cloth

c.1978-1982

This is a light grey handwoven Bida cloth, woven by a Nupe woman on a vertical loom. (Bida is the capital of the Nupe kingdom in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It is made up of two broad panels stitched t...

Textile:
ITC 2014.101

Bida cloth

c.1978-1982

This is a multicoloured Bida cloth, woven by a Nupe woman on a vertical loom. (Bida is the capital of the Nupe kingdom in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It has sections in green, white, red, purple and bl...

Textile:
ITC 2014.102.2

Akwuete cloth

c.1964-1965

Textile:
ITC 2014.103

Ishan (Esan) kilt

c. 1965

A striped and geometrically patterned black, red and yellow kilt, to be worn with a toga. It was woven on a vertical loom by a woman in the town of Ewohimi, in the Ishan area, northeast of Benin City....

Textile:
ITC 2014.104

Ishan (Esan) toga

c. 1965

This is a toga, woven by a woman in the Ishan area, northeast of Benin City in southern Nigeria, on a vertical loom. It was woven in three broad panels and sewn together, and has twisted fringing at b...

Textile:
ITC 2014.105

Aniocha cloth

1966-1967

An Aniocha cloth head tie, made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Red and black weft float motifs are in the form of weft st...

Textile:
ITC 2014.106

Aniocha cloth

1966-1967

Textile:
ITC 2014.107.2

Aniocha cloth

1966-1967

An Aniocha cloth wrapper, part of an outfit with a matching toga (ITC 2014.107.1), made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Re...

Textile:
ITC 2014.108

Aniocha cloth

1966-1967

An Aniocha cloth head tie in plain white, made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. This is women’s weave; a broad panel woven on a broad vertical loom. There are fringes at both ends...