Dance dress for women "ntshak" · D. R. Congo, Kuba/Ngeende · ID: 3042714
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.
The object Dance dress for women “ntshak” with the object ID 3042714 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 178 achieved a sales price of EUR 400.
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Comparing literature
Meurant, Georges, Traumzeichen, München 1989, p. 90, ill. 79 Binkley, David A. & Patricia Darish, Kuba, Milan 2009, p. 127