Wax Print Cloth
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- Title Wax Print Cloth
- Category Textile
- Medium Wax print with indigo dye
- Dimensions 64"h x 68"w
- Year Completed undated
- Notes The wax print cloth was originally produced by the Yoruba but is now commonly made by many different groups throughout West Africa. It is sometimes referred to as Yoruba cloth because of its popularity with the women of the Yoruba tribe.* This cloth would be used as a wrapper typically with a separate blouse of fabric worn on the top. Wax print cloth is sometimes made with casaba starch and died with indigo. The Yoruba also commonly use cloths for burials. An Egungun ensemble, a masquerade costume, has the closest layer worn to the maskers' skin made of aso oke, a hand-woven cloth such as this.* *Lisa Aronson, “Patronage and Akwete Weaving.” (African arts, vol.13, no. 3, 1980), 62-91. *Mary Ann Fitzgerald, “Transformation Through Cloth: An Egungun Costume of the Yoruba.” (African Arts, vol.28, no. 2, 1995), 55-57.
- Artist Yoruba People Nigerian
- Credit Clyde and Annie Matters Collection
- Location Dornsife 321
- Accession Number 1994.0035
- Status Checked Out
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