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View full screenCover of woven raffia palm fibre, with cut-pile embroidery, and corner pom-poms: Central Africa, Republic of the Congo, Loango, Kongo people, 17th century
A.UC.629
Loango, Republic of the Congo, Central Africa
17th century
Kongo
Woven palm fibre with cut-pile embroidery
Power and Majesty: The Art of Kongo Masters (16 Sep 2015 - 03 Jan 2016)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Colours of Africa
La Gamma, Alisa, Kongo Art and Majesty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York , Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2015, P.158. 'Fig. 105 Luxury Cloth: Cushion Cover. Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo or Angola, 17-18th century, inventoried 1854. Raffia, 21 1/8 x 21 1/8 in. (53.5 x 53.5 cm). National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh (UC629) (Exhib.)'