Large round woven basket or mat. Base is flat, with edge lifting slightly. Weaving incorporates dyed grass to create a brown circle at centre with short green lines emanating outward from it on an angle. Around body of mat are four standing camels, each with coloured dots outlining the torso. Ar...

Rectangular leather purse. Bag consists of a wallet and a cover, attached by a long thin strap made of twisted leather that holds the wallet inside the cover. Cover has red and black tooling on front in linear patterns with a square at centre. Top has two green leather ‘’tubes’ to each side from ...

Leather purse. Bag is rectangular, rounded on bottom edges, with a long, braided leather shoulder strap. The bag is constructed out of a single piece of leather, folded to create two compartments and a flap at front. Sides of compartments are sewn. A long shoulder strap of braided leather is att...

Cotton sleeveless tunic, with a rounded neck, in dark blue. Around neck is a line of embroidery in white thread, scalloped top and bottom with a block and feather pattern on the inside. At centre of shirt on both front and back are large embroidered motifs in white, in colour block and linear pat...

Cotton dress. Garment body is rectangular, with three-quarter length sleeves, and a round neck. Hem is below the knees. Torso and shoulders are made of a cotton fabric with peacock feather design on a background of tiny brown leaves and green foliage. Dress bottom, neck panel and arms are black f...

Long embroidered cloth. On a black cotton ground is stitched in thick synthetic thread a variety of designs and motifs, such as concentric diamond shapes, long stripes in red, white, orange and blue, shorter thin lines in yellow, green red and white, and more complicated motifs in similar colours...

Cotton blanket. Large textile is made of fourteen long thin pieces of weaving that have been stitched together. Each contains the same designs, alternating in some instances, matched in others to create long continuous lines. Near centre of blanket, Niger’s flag appears many times as well as patc...

Cotton blanket. Large textile is made of seven long thin pieces of weaving that have been stitched together. Each completes part of the overall decoration of the blanket, with a variety of black stripes in various thicknesses, along with two smaller panels to either side of centre in blue, red an...

Gourd hat. Half-gourd creates the dome of the hat, with stem raised at centre. An edging of rattan wraps around the base of the gourd and is hammered into place with small nails. Interior holds woven rattan lining and soft ring that cushions the head. Twisted fibre chin ties emerge from either si...

Small hammered gold ring. The band widens at the top, to about twice the width of the bottom. There is a carved design, on the wide area at the top, of a single bunch of grapes, with one curling vine tendril at the upper end.