Skirt Item Number: 3343/2 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

White cotton wrap skirt. Design of small black elephants, with yellow outlines, printed in horizontal rows across front and back. Light and dark blue streaks in background. Top of cloth has white band with blue streaks and then a stripe of dark blue and a stripe of light blue. Same band and stripe pattern reversed along bottom edge. Cloth hemmed on sides.

History Of Use

Typical wrap skirt worn in Nigeria in the 1970s. Cloth was wrapped around the body and secured by two corners tied in a knot at the waist.