The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 6, 2023

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

Citations
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
Exhibition history

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).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1991.224