Panel
CultureKuba peoples
Datelate 19th-early 20th century
MediumHandwoven raffia cloth
DimensionsOverall: 24 × 26 3/8 inches (60.96 × 66.99 cm)
Credit LineGift of Fifi White
Object number2000.28.2
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DescriptionThe design on this textile panel is an all-over pattern that includes diamond and zigzag forms. Brown, black, off-white, and mustard dyes were used to enhance the pattern.ProvenanceWith Fifi White, Shawnee Mission, KS, by 1986-2000;
Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2000.
Georges Meurant, Shoowa Design: African Textiles from the Kingdom of Kuba (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1986), 35, (repro.).
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