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Head Cloth831/2 a

Head cloth composed of four long strips of leaf-patterned damask fabric sewn together to form a rectangle. The fabric is dyed with bands of lighter and darker purple bands and long thin lines of light purple run perpendicular to these. These bands alternate with thinner bands of dark purple, and the ends are unfinished.

Culture
West African
Material
cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
San Louis, Senegal
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile831/1

Cotton fibre dyed in yellow and green on white with a mottled weave-like pattern in all three colours at the centre and a band of geometric pattern in yellow on green at each end. The ends are finished with a machine-stitched edge and a fringe of dyed yellow and green segments of string tied at intervals along the edge.

Culture
West African
Material
dye and cotton fibre
Made in
San Louis, Senegal
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head Cloth831/2 b

A relatively square cloth piece that has four main wide bands, each consisting of a light blue and white pattern with a plain thin dark blue band in between them and at each side. Has a very subtle floral pattern embossed overall. Composed of two pieces sewn together lengthwise.

Culture
West African
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
San Louis, Senegal
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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