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Woman's Skirt   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Woman's Skirt
Description
This female skirt or hip wrapper is the most extravagant textile of the Mbuun people of the Kwilu-Kwango River Basin. Its overall tan surface is from raffia fiber. It also features elegant geometric surface decoration called lobubasa: the diamond-shaped patterns embroidered on the upper and lower part of the textile with dyed fiber and through the center where the panels that form the textile converge. As a prestige cloth it most likely was only worn on special occasions such as burials or for ceremonial functions. Although it is a women's cloth, it is woven by men, a norm shared by neighboring cultures such as the Kuba and the Kongo, which have similarly rich textile traditions.
Date 1875
date QS:P571,+1875-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Raffia palm fiber
Dimensions Overall: 73.7 x 102.9 cm (29 x 40 1/2 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
African Art
Accession number
2013.5
Place of creation Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mbuun people
Credit line Alma Kroeger Fund
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.5

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