YORUBA STYLE VEST with PANTS 7, Nigeria

Brightly inventive and meticulously constructed, this modern vest with pants, although they have no spiritual use, they were produced by hand in Nigeria by the Yoruba people.



Front view, hanging


 

Back view, hanging


Front view, extended flat


Back view, extended flat (inside border strip showing)


           

Details, Front and Back


Pants, front and back


           

           

Details of Pants, front and back


Photographs © Hamill Gallery

YORUBA STYLE
VEST with PANTS 7
VEST: 43" high x 34" wide at top, 54" widest (as photographed), 75" wide fully extended flat.
PANTS: 37" high (long), 19" wide at waist, 27" wide at ankles as photographed.
Nigeria
$1200


This is much more of a tunic, full in form, with the matching pants (one size fits all) held by a drawstring. The embroidery and beadwork is on Yoruba Ashoke strip woven textiles.

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