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78 x 41 in.
Accession NumberAlicia Ballard Fine Arts Purchase Fund
Copyright(Ousman Berete, Corona, New York); purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana in 1987.
Tailored, drawstring trousers with wide waistbands serve as prestige garments among the men of the Hausa, Nupe, and other northern Nigerian peoples. Influenced by the styles of trousers worn by the Muslim men of North Africa, they are decorated by extensive embroidery and are worn with long, wide-sleeved embroidered shirts.
The embroidery in bold, geometric patterns is executed by men using imported wool yarns on a machine-woven cotton fabric. Some of the angular and curvilinear interlocking patterns on this example derive from decorative Islamic motifs.
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