woven food cover, unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist

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unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist, woven food cover
unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist, woven food cover
unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist
woven food cover
1982
unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist, artist
woven food cover, 1982
Where object was made: Kano, Nigeria
Material/technique: coiling; plant fiber; dyeing
Dimensions:
Object Diameter (Diameter): 30 cm
Object Diameter (Diameter): 11 13/16 in
Credit line: Gift of Professor Beverly Mack
Accession number: 2011.0199
Not on display
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Exhibition Label:
"Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing," Mar-2012, Stephen Goddard
The food covers made by the Hausa-Fulbe peoples of northern Nigeria incorporate woven “signature” patterns that identify the village in which the food cover was made. While the Hausa-Fulbe peoples can identify where a food
cover was made on the basis of its pattern there appears to be no “code book,” no published resource with this information. SG