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Woman's Skirt by Kuba — VisualArtsDB
Woman's Skirt
Kuba
1701–1800
Medium
Raffia, plain weave; pieced; embroidered in lateral looping and stem stitches; couching joined by pearl stitches; edged with lateral looping stitches
Dimensions
77 × 37.4 cm (30 1/4 × 14 3/4 in.)
Genre
textile
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
kuba kingdom
Tags
clothing
african
kuba (democratic republic of congo style
arts of Africa
dress (garment)
raffia
African Textiles
kuba kingdom
needlework (visual works)
costume
Textile
couching (embroidering)
embroidering
plain weaving
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