
Ewe Cloth
An excellent and very rare Ewe cloth with squares woven in bright red and saffron yellow broken with bands of blue stripes. A notably early cloth comparable to an example in the British Museum Coll. No. Af1954,01.1 collected in Dahomey c. 1865, the earliest datable cloth in a UK public collection.
Can be conservation mounted on board.
255 x115cm