Paravent ou panneau mural "insika" ·  Rwanda / Burundi, Tutsi / Hutu · ID: 3049776

Description

rattan, grass fibre, partly dyed dark brown, fine 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.

Littérature comparée

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