Woman's Overskirt
Kuba, Bushong Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mushenge- Date
- 19th century
- Medium
- Raffia, plain weave; pieced; embroidered in lateral looping, and stem and running stitches cut to form pile; couching; joined by buttonhole, pearl, and trammed twisted buttonhole stitches; edged in lateral looping stitches
- Dimensions
- 162.1 × 72.2 cm (63 3/4 × 28 3/8 in.)
- Department
- Textiles
- Credit line
- Tillie C. Cohn Fund and Tillie C. Cohn Fund in memory of her parents, Max and Rose N. Cohn
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