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Thorn CarvingAf407

Figure representing a woman sitting on a cylindrical stool selling yams. There is a child in a sling tied to her back. She is wearing a short sleeved dress. The dress, sling, and stool are light yellow-brown. Yams, figures' heads, and limbs are dark brown. On a wood base that is light brown.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
atum thorn, rice adhesive, wood and egun thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf406

A figure representing a woman with a baby in a sling tied to her waist. There are three inverted pots and one upright pot in front of her. She is sitting on a cylindrical stool with her right leg outstretched in front of her and her left leg bent backwards at the knee. The woman is wearing a sleeved dress. The dress and the sling are light red-brown. Figures' heads, and limbs, four pots, and the stool are dark brown. Wood base is light brown.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
egun thorn, rice adhesive, atum thorn, wood, paper and fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf405

Figure representing a female sitting on a cylindrical stool, holding a small cup and a naked baby. She is wearing a knee-length dress. She has a bowl between her feet. The figures are dark brown; the dress, stool, cup, and bowl are light brown. The base appears to be wood.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
rice adhesive, paper, egun thorn, atum thorn and fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf404

Figure representing a bent, bare headed woman with a baby tied to her waist, and she is holding a cone-shaped container filled with firewood. Her dress and baby sling are light yellow-brown. Firewood, heads, and limbs are dark brown. Base is light brown wood.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
atum thorn, stain, wood, rice adhesive and egun thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf403

Two figures representing a man and a woman. A man with a slightly bent body is wearing a loose fitting shirt with elbow-length sleeves, a soft pointed cap, and knee-length pants. He is playing a double-headed pressure drum which is slung from his left shoulder by a narrow cloth strip. His right hand is holding a bent drumstick with which he is striking one end of the drum. The second figure is bowing, wearing a calf-length dress with elbow-length loose sleeves, and a soft cap with two points. She is holding a triangular, folded cloth with both hands, and her elbows are bent. Heads, limbs, and drum body are dark brown. Clothing and drum heads are light yellow-brown. Caps and folded cloth are light red-brown. Cloth strip is red-brown. On a wood base.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
atum thorn, egun thorn, wood, fibre and rice adhesive
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf373

Two figures representing people cutting a tree. One male figure is wearing a sleeveless shirt and knee-length trousers. The other male figure is wearing a short-sleeved knee-length garment. Both are wearing soft pointed hats and holding machetes in their right hands to cut the tree in between them. They are standing on a base of scattered shavings. Heads, limbs, tree, and shavings are dark brown. Garments are light yellow-brown. Hats are light red-brown. Machetes and the base are light brown wood.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
rice adhesive, fibre, paper, wood, egun thorn and atum thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileAf463

Textile composed of a length of dyed cotton divided into five large panels of design in mottled red and dark red on a solid dark red ground. The end and centre squares have a mask motif, and these are separated by two sets of two square designs side-by-side. These two motifs consist of a lizard on one side and a mask pattern similar to the larger version. The textile has two selvedges running the length of the cloth and the ends are raw.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShawlAf462

Rectangular shaped shawl woven warp-faced with twisted thread fringe on both ends. Warp is green and purple. The design consists of a geometric continuous weft pattern of diamonds, triangles, rectangles and star-like shapes in blue and yellow silk. Pattern made by discontinuous extra weft laid in red, yellow, white, and black. Background has horizontal stripe in alternate purple and green warp threads. There is a piece of paper taped to the back reading: ‘cotton okeen’.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Okene, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtAf455

Skirt composed of a rectangular blue cloth divided lengthwise into six squares. The skirt is divided into squares in three rows and six columns. Divisions between the squares are marked by white bands with light blue rope-like patterned borders. The squares alternate in a checkerboard fashion between patterns formed by small irregular whites circles and different designs formed by short white bands, all on a blue background. The blue ends have a machine-stitched finished edge.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf402

Two figures representing a man and a woman. The man has bare feet, short pants, shirt, and pointed cap while holding a drumstick in each hand which touches the top of two conical drums with wide bases resting on the floor. Beside him, there is a woman with bare feet, a bare head, and a short dress. She is carrying a baby low on her back, and in her right hand she is holding a drumstick which touches a flat single membrane, basin-shaped drum which rests on the floor and has a carved human face on the front. Clothes, two drums, drum membrane, and sticks are light yellow-brown. The cap is light red-brown. Drum base, figures' limbs, and heads are dark brown. On a wood base.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
egun thorn, atum thorn, rice adhesive and wood
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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