Swahili and Unidentified
Embroidered Cap (kofia ya kiua)
1799-1917
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Cotton, eyelet and couching stitch embroidery, 4 1/2 H × 7 Diam. in. (11.4 × 17.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift
Object Number
2023.292
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2023; Private collection, by purchase 2020; Andres Moraga/Pierre Loos by purchase 2018 at Brussels auction; consigned to auction by the nephew of Count Maurice Lippens (1875-1956), who was governor of Belgian Congo between 1919 and 1921
Artist Artist
Unidentified
2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00
