Zemanek-Münster

Wallhanging or screen "insika"

Ruanda / Burundi, Tutsi / Hutu
sold EUR 1,500
Provenance
Jean-Marc Desaive, Soumagne, Belgium
Size
M: 102 cm x 68,5 cm
M: 40.2 inch x 27.0 inch

Description

cane, plant fibre, colour pigments, cord,
Tutsi and Hutu domestic and ceremonial space was enclosed and defined by fibre.

Their houses - even the kings’ palaces - were structures of plaited bamboo, surrounded by woven palisades and subdivided with interior partitions and screens, all fabricated with plant materials.


Comparing literature

Drake-Moraga, Vanessa, Weaving Abstraction, Washington 2012, p. 195, ill. 96 f.

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