The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of January 30, 2023

Embroidered Raffia Pile Cloth

1900s

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

Raffia and dye

Overall: 57.5 x 50.8 cm (22 5/8 x 20 in.); Mounted: 64.5 x 56.5 cm (25 3/8 x 22 1/4 in.)

Anonymous gift in honor of the Museum's seventy-fifth anniversary 1992.102

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

Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1992-January 3, 1993).

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/1992.102