The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Embroidered Raffia Pile Cloth

1900s

Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kuba peoples, 20th century

Raffia and dye
Overall: 64 x 58.7 cm (25 3/16 x 23 1/8 in.); Mounted: 69.8 x 64.1 cm (27 1/2 x 25 1/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1991.224
Location: Not on view
  • Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. p. 118, color repr. p. 43
  • The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
  • {{cite web|title=Embroidered Raffia Pile Cloth|url=false|author=|year=1900s|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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