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Raffia fabric, embroidered with geometric motifs and used as a skirt by Nyimi, king of the Bushongo
Raffia fabric with embroidery, a so-called Kasai fabric, after the original geographical origin of the cloth. Such fabrics are used as dowries, worn as garments, or intended as grave goods. The band was probably sewn to or onto a larger raffia fabric, perhaps a skirt or shawl. Such bands serve as decoration to the plain raffia fabric in linen weave. \Each cloth has a symbolic meaning and is at lea…
Type d'item
- Object Type: fabric
- tissu
- Textile
Date
- voor 1963
Support
- Material: raffia
- raphia
- Raphia
Institution partenaire
Agrégateur
Licence du support dans cet enregistrement (sauf indication contraire)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Date de création
- 1963
Provenance
- 1963-02-20
- Aankoop
Identificateur
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/101245
Format
- Technique: embroidery
- brodé
- Broderie
Fait partie de
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Est liée à
- velours
- ambre
- velours
- tissé
Pays fournisseur
- Netherlands
Nom de la collection
Première publication sur Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Dernière mise à jour de l'Institution partenaire
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z