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Woman's Overskirt
Kuba (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mushenge)
19th century
- Medium
- Raffia, plain weave; pieced; embroidered in lateral looping, and stem and running stitches cut to form pile; couching; joined by pearl and trammed twisted buttonhole stitches; edged in lateral looping stitches
- Classification
- Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions
- 137.5 × 57.8 cm (54 1/8 × 22 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Tillie C. Cohn Fund in memory of her parents, Max and Rose N. Cohn
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
