Two wrap skirts ·  D. R. Congo, Kuba · ID: 3035624

Description

woven from raffia palm (“Raphia vinifera”) fibres, a) l: 132 cm, b: 56 cm, consisting of several parts, the middle part dyed earthy red with stitched bands giving structure to the fabric, borders of natural coloured fibres with rhomb-shaped patterns in black, serged rim, ragged lower rim; b) l: 113 cm, b: 53 cm, middle part of red dyed and structured netting, raffia plush borders, serged with pink fabric, missing parts at the lower rim

The object Two wrap skirts with the object ID 3035624 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 343.

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