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Woman's Skirt
Kuba (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mushenge)
Possibly 18th century
- Medium
- Raffia, plain weave; pieced; embroidered in lateral looping and stem stitches; couching joined by pearl stitches; edged with lateral looping stitches
- Classification
- Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions
- 77 × 37.4 cm (30 1/4 × 14 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
