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Kuba

Woman’s Scalloped Border Pile and Pierced Design Overskirt

1915-1930

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Kuba

Woman’s Scalloped Border Pile and Pierced Design Overskirt

1915-1930

Physical Qualities Raffia palm fiber, 28 × 62 in. (71.1 × 157.5 cm.)
Credit Line Anonymous Gift
Object Number 2023.301
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2023; Private collection, by purchase 2017; Cathy Cooner, by purchase, c. 1987; Pierre Loos through Andres Moraga
Kevin Tervala, Kuba: Fabric of an Empire, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Cone Focus Gallery, August 19, 2018 – January 20, 2019

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