Object Details
- Description
- Skirt
- Provenance
- Collected and retained by John Noble White in Kasongo, 1924 to circa 1975
- John Buxton, circa 1975
- Private collection, London by 1979
- Mort and Rebecca Lipkin (Lipkin Gallery), Phoenix and John Buxton (Shango Gallery) Dallas, by 1983 to 1984
- Published References
- Gillon, Werner. 1979. Collecting African Art. London: Studio Vista, p. 134, no. 166 (field photo), no. 24.
- Heusch, Luc de. 1995. "Beauty is Elsewhere: Returning a Verdict on Tetela Masks, Historical and Ethnological Notes on the Nkutshu," in Objects: Signs of Africa, ed. by Luc de Heusch. Belgium: Snoeck-Ducaju and Zoon (Tervuren: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale), p. 1, photo 9 (field photo).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Songye artist
- Tetela artist
- Date
- Early 20th century
- Credit Line
- Acquisition grant from the James Smithson Society
- Medium
- Raffia
- Dimensions
- H x W: 9 x 91 cm (3 9/16 x 35 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Textile and Fiber Arts
