Art Institute of Chicago
Woman's Overskirt
Bushong, Kuba
- Date
- 19th century
- Medium
- Raffia, plain weave; pieced; embroidered in lateral looping, and stem and running stitches cut to form pile; couching; joined by buttonhole, pearl, and trammed twisted buttonhole stitches; edged in lateral looping stitches
- Culture
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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- Object type
- AAT300209261
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