Woman's Ceremonial Skirt
Original Language TitleNtshakishwepi
CultureKuba peoples, Bushoong subgroup
Datelate 19th-early 20th century
MediumHandwoven raffia cloth
DimensionsOverall: 27 3/4 × 220 inches (70.49 × 558.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Fifi White
Object numberF97-36/2
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Gallery LabelThis woman's ceremonial skirt displays the sophisticated complexity and inventive interplay of pattern that distinguish the Kuba aesthetic. The decorative band just inside the right-hand border of the cloth was created using the particularly labor-intensive cut-pile embroidery technique, creating variation in texture as well as design.
Fifi White, Shawnee Mission, KS, by 1997;
Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1997.
Joyce M. Youmans, “African Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,” African Arts 33, no. 4 (Winter 2000), 49, 52, (repro.).
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