Wallhanging or screen "insika" · Ruanda / Burundi, Tutsi / Hutu · ID: 3046238
sold
EUR 1,500
Provenance
Jean-Marc Desaive, Soumagne, BelgiumSize
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.