Textile

Object Number:

AF1526

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Kuba (African culture)
Bushongo
Bangendi

Provenience:

Zaire
Kasai District
Belgian Congo

Section:

African

Materials:

Raffia

Technique:

Embroidered

Description:

Embroidered pile cloth, natural-color raffia fiber pile cloth with brown and tan diamond and diagonal line patterns. Nine quadrants with two horizontal line and two vertical double green lines between each quadrant. Right-bottom right center portions shrunken in. Brown stain in top right portion.

Credit Line:

Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Amachi, Ndidi U. 1995. The Art of African Textiles: Form and Function. : Page/Fig./Plate: 5

[Article] Washburn, Dorothy K. 1990. Style, Classification and Ethnicity: Design Catagories on Bakuba Raffia Cloth. Transactions. 80 (3): 1-157. : Page/Fig./Plate: 110 Fig. V.21

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