Woman wearing adire eleko iro cloth wrapper, Ile Oloponda

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.

"Woman wearing an àdìre-eleko iro, stenciled adire wrapper, Obala's compound, Ila Orangun." [Abiodun R. Yoruba Art and Language: Seeking the African in African Art. Cambridge University Press; 2014. Figure 84, pp. 172] Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes. Original number, "VIII.C.82.27".

Collection

John Pemberton III Collection

Archival grouping

John Pemberton III Collection / Slides / Arts and artists, Ila Orangun / Adire Cloth and Woven Textiles

Catalog date

1982

Recorded places

Ila Orangun (Nigeria)

Cataloged creator or photographer

Pemberton, John, III, 1928-2016; Pemberton, Jane G., 1931 -; Fakeye, Lamidi Olonade, 1925 - 2009

Recorded subjects

Clothing and dress -- Africa; Dyes and dyeing -- Nigeria

Format and extent

1 Slides (photographs) (Color, 35 mm)

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