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Artist name:

DR Congo, Kuba



Artwork title:

Raffia pile cloth


Description: Kuba raffia pile cloth (velour de kasai). Type A111 Geometrical design - Mbolo. Pink colour raffia canvas background which has faded to brown, embroidered with natural coloured and black raffia. Black lines are in stem stitch. The pile is of the bushy type.

Artwork date(s): before 1942
Artwork type: African Collection
Medium: palm raffia
Measurements: 585X525
Accession number: 330

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