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Prestige Cloth with Thick Pile and “Jagged Blocks” Design

Kuba, Shoowa, Unidentified

Prestige Cloth with Thick Pile and “Jagged Blocks” Design

1958-1986

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Kuba, Shoowa, Unidentified

Prestige Cloth with Thick Pile and “Jagged Blocks” Design

1958-1986

Physical Qualities Raffia palm fiber, 19 × 22 in. (48.3 × 55.9 cm.)
Credit Line Anonymous Gift
Object Number 2023.303
Kuba Shoowa velvet "Jagged Blocks"
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2023; Private collection, by purchase 2010; Andres Moraga, San Francisco Tribal Arts
African Wing Rotations 2025
Vanessa Drake Moraga, Weaving Abstractions: Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa, Washington, DC: Textile Museum, 2011, pl. 44, pg. 98

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