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Bushong Kuba Kingdom

skirt, early 1900s

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Bushong

Title

skirt

Year

early 1900s

Medium

raffia

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • raffia

Techniques

  • embroidery,
  • embroidering,
  • embroidered

Dimensions

66 cm (26 inches) (length)

Type

  • Fashion,
  • Costume

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

81.079

Projects & Publications

Publications

A World of Costume and Textiles

A Handbook of the Collection

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

A World of Costume and Textiles

September 22 - November 12, 1989

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is skirt with the accession number of 81.079. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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