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#47 – OLD CEREMONIAL DANCE SKIRT AND DANCE SKIRT PANEL. Kuba people, Democratic Republic of Congo. (A) This dramatic skirt was made from three sections of hand woven raffia textile each of which has been subdivided into a pattern created with embroidered and cut pile designs to form repeated rows of 3 squares across from side to side. This is a very unusual pattern for a Kuba dance skirt, as is the exceptionally thick, almost bushy cut pile component and the use of starkly contrasting black, brown, and neutral cut pile fibers. Raffia balls are attached to the border. The cloth was entirely hand woven and hand sewn. L 81.5in W 24in. (B) The geometric designs in this example are predominantly triangles and diamonds created with the cut pile and embroidery techniques on a single sheet of hand woven raffia cloth. The design is broken up into eight contrasting rectangular sections. L 24in. W 23.5in. Raffia. See Clarke 1997 p. 46-56 for information about how Kuba textiles were made.

OLD CEREMONIAL DANCE SKIRT AND DANCE SKIRT PANEL. Kuba people, Democratic Republic of Congo. (A) This dramatic skirt was made from three sections of hand woven raffia textile each of which has been subdivided into a pattern created with embroidered and cut pile designs to form repeated rows of 3 squares across from side to side. This is a very unusual pattern for a Kuba dance skirt, as is the exceptionally thick, almost bushy cut pile component and the use of starkly contrasting black, brown, and neutral cut pile fibers. Raffia balls are attached to the border. The cloth was entirely hand woven and hand sewn. L 81.5in W 24in. (B) The geometric designs in this example are predominantly triangles and diamonds created with the cut pile and embroidery techniques on a single sheet of hand woven raffia cloth. The design is broken up into eight contrasting rectangular sections. L 24in. W 23.5in. Raffia. See Clarke 1997 p. 46-56 for information about how Kuba textiles were made.

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