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saki

Hausa · Hausa / Northern Nigeria; Niger; zongo communities in Ghana · Craft/Textile

A prestige caliphate cloth woven with indigo-dyed and white yarn. Perani and Wolff report that gowns of it (rigar saki) were worn only by those of the highest rank. Rigar giwa is described as a variant of saki cloth.

A gown of saki marked its wearer as a person of high rank.

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