id: 171144 accession number: 2013.6 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.6 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:38.316000 Prestige robe (riga), late 1800s–by 1910. Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, probably Hausa-style or Nupe-style weavers and embroiders. Cotton, silk, and indigo; overall: 120 x 226 cm (47 1/4 x 89 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Alma Kroeger Fund 2013.6 title: Prestige robe (riga) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 1800s–by 1910 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1910 current location: creditline: Alma Kroeger Fund copyright: --- culture: Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, probably Hausa-style or Nupe-style weavers and embroiders technique: Cotton, silk, and indigo department: African Art collection: African Art type: Garment find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 120 x 226 cm (47 1/4 x 89 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: African art rotation opening date: 2013-10-28T04:00:00 African art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 28, 2013-October 20, 2014). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). title: Bámgbóyè: A Twentieth-Century Yorùbá Sculptor opening date: 2022-09-09T04:00:00 Bámgbóyè: A Twentieth-Century Yorùbá Sculptor. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (organizer) (September 9, 2022-January 8, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 108): October 28, 2013 - October 20, 2014.', 'opening_date': '2013-10-28T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE possibly from Julius August Konietzko [1886–1952], Hamburg, Germany date: footnotes: *
This hypothesis is based upon Maetzel obtaining most of his collection via Konietzko
citations: Emil Maetzel, [1877–1955], Hamburg, Germany date: by at least 1910 footnotes: *
Depicted wearing the garment in 1910 and 1926 photographs; auction house record:
  https://www.auction.fr/_en/lot/mens-vestment-nigeria-nupe-3393435 
citations: (Zemanek-Münster, Wurzburg, Germany, March 13, 2012, Lot 99, sold to Kevin Conru, London or Brussels) date: March 13, 2012 footnotes: *
Acquisition paperwork, CMA object file
citations: Alan Marcuson, Brussels, Belgium date: c. 2012–2013 footnotes: *
Acquisition paperwork, CMA object file
citations: (Andres Moraga San Francisco Tribal, Berkeley, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2013 footnotes: *
Acquisition paperwork, CMA object file
citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2013– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Green, James, et al. Bámigbóyè : A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition. Yale University Art Gallery, 2022. page number: p. 55-56. url: Picton, John, and John Mack. African Textiles. London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications, 1989. page number: p. 192 illus url: Gillow, John. African Textiles: Colour and Creativity Across a Continent. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003. page number: p. 100-103 url: Green, James. "Islamic Influence in the Work of Yorùbá Sculptor Bámigbóyè," ÌMỌ̀ DÁRA, October 16, 2022. page number: Reproduced. url: https://www.imodara.com/magazine/islamic-influence-bamigboye/ --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2013.6/2013.6_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2013.6/2013.6_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2013.6/2013.6_full.tif