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Prestige Cloth with Thick Pile and “Jagged Blocks” Design

Kuba, Shoowa, and others

Prestige Cloth with Thick Pile and “Jagged Blocks” Design

c. 1959-1987

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  • Culture: Kuba
  • Culture: Shoowa
  • Artist: Unidentified

Prestige Cloth with Thick Pile and “Jagged Blocks” Design

c. 1959-1987

Physical Qualities Raffia palm fiber, 19 × 22 in. (48.3 × 55.9 cm.)
Credit Line Anonymous Gift
Object Number 2023.303
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2023; Private collection, by purchase 2010; Andres Moraga, San Francisco Tribal Arts
Kevin Tervala, Kuba: Fabric of an Empire, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Cone Focus Gallery, August 19, 2018 – January 20, 2019
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. 44, pg. 98

Artist

Unidentified

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