Kuba, Shoowa, and others
Prestige Cloth with Thick Pile and “Jagged Blocks” Design
1958
Scroll
Prestige Cloth with Thick Pile and “Jagged Blocks” Design
1958
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
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 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
On View: Wurtzburger, Hallway
