Zemanek-Münster

Women dance dress "ntshak"

D. R. Congo, Bushoong
sold EUR 450
Size
M: 500 cm x 82 cm
M: 196.9 inch x 32.3 inch

Description

fibres of the raffia palm, consisting of eight pieces of cloth and various smaller ones, the fond dyed in brown, braided with applications of abstract form in light beige, in good state of preservation, slightly dam., small holes (may as well come from the making of the cloth, which is watered and hammered with wooden pestels for several times in order to make it smooth).


Comparing literature

Meurant, Georges, Traumzeichen, München 1989, p. 94

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