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Artist name:

DR Congo, Kuba



Artwork title:

Raffia pile cloth


Description: Kuba raffia cloth (velour de kasai). Type A.11 Geometrical design consisting of three different design units - Mbolo and 2 Mamanye (chevron) designs. Purple pink raffia canvas embroidered with natural and black coloured raffia. Four units horizontally bordered with a single line of stem stitch; three units vertically bordered with a double row of stem stitch.

Artwork date(s): before 1942
Artwork type: African Collection
Medium: palm raffia
Measurements: 665X540
Accession number: 324

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