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 pearl and trammed twisted buttonhole stitches; edged in lateral looping stitches
- Dimensions
- 137.5 × 57.8 cm (54 1/8 × 22 3/4 in.)
- Department
- Textiles
- Credit line
- Tillie C. Cohn Fund in memory of her parents, Max and Rose N. Cohn