Skip to main content
Membership Shop
Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)

Mbuti

Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)

1959-1978

Scroll
Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)

Mbuti

Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)

Mbuti

Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)

1959-1978

Physical Qualities Bark, pigment, 33 3/4 × 23 in. (85.7 × 58.4 cm.)
Credit Line The Amy Gould/Matthew Polk Fund
Object Number 2021.212
BMA by purchase, 2021; Andres Moraga Textile Art, by purchase; Emmanuel Paye
The Matter of Bark Cloth
"Ongoing Exhibitions," BMA Today, Issue 171, Summer 2023, p. 30.
https://unframed.lacma.org/2018/04/25/new-acquisition-collection-african-ceremonial-barkcloth-paintings

Culture

Mbuti

2000–2000

Congolese
Meet Mbuti →
Not on View

Explore the Collection Further

BY SAME ARTIST
AFRICA, THE AMERICAS, ASIA, AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
Mbuti
Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)
2000
Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)
Mbuti
Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)
2000
Mbuti
Painted Bark Cloth (Pongo or Murumba)
2000
Mbuti
Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)
2000
Mbuti
Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)
1959–1978
Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)
Mbuti
Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)
1959–1978
Bottle Decorated with Painted Grass Motif
Jizhou kilns
Bottle Decorated with Painted Grass Motif
1166–1299
Ming Smith
America Seen Through Stars and Stripes (Painted), 1976
1994–2004
Hengshan kilns
Footed Bowl with Painted Floral Design
999–1199
Covered Wine Jar with Painted Peonies and Inscription
Cizhou kilns
Covered Wine Jar with Painted Peonies and Inscription
1114–1233
Indian Painted/Dyed Hip Wrapper (Phaa Nung) in the Thai Style
1774–1799
Indian Painted/Dyed Cloth for Thai Royalty
1774–1799