Kuba and Unidentified
Royal Dance Skirt for King Bope Mabiinc Mbek (r. 1916-1919)
1915
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- Culture: Kuba
- Artist Artist: Unidentified
Royal Dance Skirt for King Bope Mabiinc Mbek (r. 1916-1919)
1915
Physical Qualities
Trade cloth, cowrie shells, raffia fiber thread, dye, 336 × 32 3/4 in. (853.4 × 83.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift
Object Number
2023.296
More than 7,000 cowrie shells stitched to trade cloth. Each shell is threaded with a raffia fiber with a small hardened ball of mastic in the middle to hold the shell in place.
