Object Details
- Description
- Leather semi-circular wrap skirt with fringed hem; 13 rows of red, white and blue glass beads, four rows of white beads.
- Provenance
- Elga and Edward Cutler, collected in Tanzania, 1964-1981
- Elga and Alan Mitofsky, 1981-1996
- The Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communication, 1996-2014
- Published References
- African Art in American Collection, Robbins and Nooter (1989) fig. 1387; pg. 525
- Art in Washington and its Afro-American Presence: 1940-1970, Morrison (1985) Cat. no. I, pg. 45
- Notes: Cf. Phillips, ed. (1995: 156, fig. 2.41)
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Iraqw artist
- Date
- Mid-20th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communication in memory of Warren M. Robbins
- Medium
- Leather, glass beads, fiber
- Dimensions
- H x W without fringe: 109.2 × 182.9 cm (43 × 72 in.)
- Type
- Textile and Fiber Arts
