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Kuba and Unidentified

Belt (yet) with Nineteen Pendant Power Objects

1917

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  • Culture: Kuba
  • Artist Artist: Unidentified

Belt (yet) with Nineteen Pendant Power Objects

1917

Physical Qualities Leather, cloth, glass beads, shells, raffia palm fiber, pigment, 51 in. (129.5 cm.) L; 8 in. (20.3 cm) H (based on largest suspended element)
Credit Line Anonymous Gift
Object Number 2023.287
Kuba "Yet", belt with 19 power objects
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2023; Private collection, 2009; Andres Moraga
Vanessa Moraga, Weaving Abstractions: Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa, Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., October 2011 - February 2012
Vanessa Drake Moraga, Weaving Abstractions: Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa, Washington, DC: Textile Museum, 2011, pl. 89, pp. 180-181.

Artist Artist

Unidentified

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