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Raffia fabric, embroidered with geometric motifs and used as a skirt by Nyimi, king of the Bushongo
Raffia fabric with embroidery, a so-called Kasai fabric, after the original geographical origin of the cloth. Such fabrics are used as dowries, worn as garments, or intended as grave goods. The band was probably sewn to or onto a larger raffia fabric, perhaps a skirt or shawl. Such bands serve as decoration to the plain raffia fabric in linen weave. \Each cloth has a symbolic meaning and is at lea…
Type of item
- Object Type: fabric
- Textile
- fabric fragment
Date
- voor 1963
Medium
- Material: raffia
- Raffia
- raffia
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1963
Provenance
- 1963-02-20
- Aankoop
Identifier
- Weefsel
Format
- Technique: embroidery
- Embroidery
- embroidery
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- velour (fabric)
- amber (fossil resin)
- velvet
- weave
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z