Skip to main content

Kuba and Unidentified

Royal Woman’s Red Overskirt

1700

Scroll
  • Culture: Kuba
  • Artist Artist: Unidentified

Royal Woman’s Red Overskirt

1700

Physical Qualities Raffia palm fiber, pigment, 21 × 51 in. (53.3 × 129.5 cm.)
Credit Line Anonymous Gift
Object Number 2023.297
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2023; Private collection, by purchase 2010; David Lantz; Pierre Loos
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. 20, pgs. 64 -65
Exhibited, Kuba: Farbic of an Empire; BMA, Aug. 2018- Feb 2019

Artist Artist

Unidentified

Explore the Collection Further

Kuba, Shoowa, and others
Prestige Cloth with Thick Pile and "Double Knot" Design
1949–1968
Kuba, Shoowa, and others
Prestige Cloth with Thick Pile and "Jagged Blocks" Design
1958–1986
Kuba, Shoowa, and others
Prestige Cloth
1958–1959