Skirt
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular panel composed of four strips of woven raffia with twisted warp fringes. Each strip is composed of smaller pieces, stitched together with dark raffia strands.
place: label: made in
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-110-1
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Skirt
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: raffia Technique: plain weave, pieced and sewn, with twisted warp fringes Label: woven raffia, pieced and sewn, with twisted warp fringes
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 111.1 x 182.9 cm (43 3/4 x 72 in.)