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1896 Benin Kingdom Textile/cloth In National Museum Liverpool by samuk: 12:07am On Apr 08 |
Benin the cradle of Black civilization. National Museums Liverpool - Cloth 1896 Before 1981.388.3 World Museum Information This cloth is one of three textiles, originally owned by J. H. Swainson, an agent for the Liverpool firm Pinnock & Co., who traded with Benin merchants in the 1890s. The three textiles (1981.388.1-3) were presented to the museum in 1981 by Peter Karpinski, who acquired them from his great aunt Flo, Swainson’s daughter. The cloth is made of plain weave cotton in locally spun open cotton and indigo stripes locally dyed. Three strips of cloth have been sewn together lengthways to make the whole, each with indigo and white warp stripes of different widths, giving the appearance of narrow strip weave. Textiles were a major item of trade in the Edo Kingdom for centuries. There was a flourishing trade in cloth with European merchant mariners by the mid-seventeenth century. Dutch merchants at this time recognized two main types of cloth made in the Edo Kingdom which brought them a profitable resale on the western coast of Africa. They exchanged the blue and white striped variety for gold on the coast of present day Ghana. They exchanged plain blue ones for ivory and human captives on the coasts of Gabon and Angola (see Alan Ryder (1969), Benin and The Europeans 1485-1897, London and Harlow: Longmans. p.93-4). Specifications Accession number 1981.388.3 Collection type Textile/Clothing Culture Edo [Bini] Date made 1896 Before Collector John Henry Swainson Place collected Africa: Western Africa: Nigeria: Southern Nigeria Date collected 1896 Before Materials Cotton fibre/textile; Pigment Measurements Overall: 1360 mm x 1930 mm Credit line Gift of P. Karpinski, 1981 1 Like
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Re: 1896 Benin Kingdom Textile/cloth In National Museum Liverpool by illicit(m): 12:32am On Apr 08 |
Nice one Oranmiyan must have taught them 1 Like |
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