Kuba Skirt Panel

DR Congo
72″ X 51 ½”
Woven from raffia fiber, the skirt panel in red and used during long periods of mourning; the surface with openwork patterns with zig-zag embroidery and large embroidered six-sided forms interlocking across the whole surface. The border of checkerboard black and white. Interlocking border in blue and beige velvet.

Provenance:
Property of a New York private collector