RAFFIA textile #14,
KUBA people, DR Congo, circa 1950,
cm 49x47
A genuinely vintage piece of a Kuba cloth showing nice age patina. Part of a private collection assembled during the 1960s. Published in the exhibition catalogue: ‘Tribaleglobale’, Imperia (2004), p.193.
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RAFFIA textile #19,
KUBA people, DR Congo, circa 1940,
cm 56x47
A genuinely vintage cloth of so-called 'Kuba velvets' showing nice age patina.
Part of a private collection assembled during the 1960s. Published in the exhibition catalogue: ‘Tribaleglobale’, Imperia (2004), p.193.
