Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Alh. Imam Idiaro weaving, Ile Atoti compound, near 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.
Ile Atoti, a compound near Ile Onigaari, specialized both in dyeing leather and in weaving etu ("guineafowl cloth"). Such cloth was used extensively in the horse trappings produced in Ile Onigaari.
- 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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Catalog reference: EEPA.2016-004, Item EEPA 2016-004-0009
Collection: Ann O'Hear Collection