tie-dye - 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard

Question

Concerns have been raised over the decline of this technique around the Kofar Mata Gate in Kano, which has been operating for nearly 500 years. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this technique whose practice among a West African ethnic group provides an English exonym for the Tuareg people, and may have inspired a modern craze. Shibori is an ancient form of this technique from Japan.

ANSWER: tie-dye [accept word form such as tie-dyeing; prompt on dye or dyeing] (The Tuaregs are known as “The Blue People of the Desert.”)

[10m] The indigo dye pits at Kofar Mata are a historical trade for this Muslim ethnic group centered around the town of Daura. These people are often grouped with the nearby Fulani.

ANSWER: Hausa [or Hausawa; accept Hausa-Fulani]

[10e] The cities of Kano and Daura are in the north of this modern-day country, where Hausaland was situated. In the modern day, many Hausa have moved to cities in this country such as Abuja and Lagos.

ANSWER: Nigeria [reject “Niger”]

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%

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Brandeis	BU	10	0	10	20
Brown	Belmont	0	0	10	10
MIT	Harvard	0	10	10	20
RIT	Lexington	0	0	10	10