Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Alh. Imam Idiaro cutting out a template for a design used on saddle blankets (iteyin), and on saddle cushions and pouffes (tim-tim), Ile Onigaari
1988
Nigeria
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.
Alh. Imam Idiaro called the motif "koronu" (a word presumably derived from "crown").
- Collection
- Ann O'Hear Collection
- Archival grouping
- Ann O'Hear Collection / Series 1: Leatherworking in Ilorin
- Catalog date
- 1988
- Recorded places
- Nigeria
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- O'Hear, Ann
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.2016-004, Item EEPA 2016-004-0007
Collection: Ann O'Hear Collection