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Ishan (Esan) kilt
Textile

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....

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Okene cloth
Textile

Okene cloth

c.1977-1979

This is a handwoven Okene cloth, woven by an Ebira woman on a vertical loom. (The home of the Ebira people is the town and environs of Okene in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) The cloth consists of two bro...

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Okene cloth
Textile

Okene cloth

c.1977-1979

This is a handwoven Okene cloth, woven by an Ebira woman on a vertical loom. (The home of the Ebira people is the town and environs of Okene in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It consists of three broad pa...

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