Dance dress for women "ntshak" · D. R. Congo, Kuba/Ngeende · ID: 3042714
sold
EUR 400
Provenance
Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach, GermanySize
M: 510 cm x 76 cm
M: 200.8 inch x 29.9 inch
Description
raffia cloth, with manyfold applications, sewn together from many pieces, border in two layers, slightly dam., smaller tears/missing parts, applications partly loosened, dirty/stained, traces of old age.
Such long skirts are usually made by several lineage members. As individual sections are completed they are sewn together. Women’s embroidered skirts can reach six meters in length or even longer. They are worn on ceremonial occasions, especially at funerals, to celebrate the life of a deceased community member and form part of the grave goods for deceased members of the lineage.
Comparing literature
Meurant, Georges, Traumzeichen, München 1989, p. 90, ill. 79 Binkley, David A. & Patricia Darish, Kuba, Milan 2009, p. 127