Ethnic Textiles

including Pacific Islands, India, Middle East & Africa

Weavings

A00-7035 African Kuba man's ceremonial skirt.
16' 8" long x 31" wide
A00-7038 African Kuba ladies' ceremonial skirt.
14' 1" long x 24½" wide
A00-7039 African Kuba ladies' ceremonial skirt.
24' 2" long x 25½" wide
A01-7049 Kuba ceremonial skirt, Congo.
18'2" long x 23½" wide
A01-7050 5 panels of a Kuba ceremonial skirt.
11'3" long x 33" wide
A05-7073 20th century barkcloth (felted bark fiber) from Uganda.
63" long x 7½" wide
A05-7075 Mid 20th century Yoruba (Southwest Nigeria) adire eleko.
66" high x 76" wide
A06-7097 First half of the 20th century kercheif made by the Dida people.
Mounted: 14” wide x 17” high
A06-7099 First half of the 20th century kerchief made by the Dida people.
Mounted: 11” wide x 12” high
A08-7100 A rare early 20th century cotton indigo shawl from Nigeria.
59" long x 50" wide
A08-7102 Early 20th century Ewe cloth, Ghana.
113" high x 73" wide
A08-7104 Early 20th century indigo dyed cotton Ndop cloth
59"high x 39" wide
A08-7105 A mid 20th century Nigerian, dark tan 'Yoruba Aso Oke Cloth'
72" long x 42½" wide
A08-7107 A mid 20th century Nigerian, 'Yoruba Aso Oke Cloth'
75½" long x 48" wide
A09-7111 Mid 20th century Nigerian "Yoruba Aso Oke" cotton cloth.
77" high x 61" wide
A10-7114 Mid-20th century African (Mali) indigo dyed cotton panel.
60" high x 35" wide
A10-7117 Mid-20th century African (Mali) indigo resist dyed cotton cover.
84" long x 47" wide
C00-4203 Tibetan, circa 1970's striped fabric in dark blue and red.
36" wide x 37½" high
C02-4235 Tibetan wool apron, 1st quarter of the 20th century.
30¼" high x 23¼" wide
C04-4270 Central Tibetan wool braid cover.
41" long x 24" wide
C05-4271 Central Tibetan braided wool cover.
49" long x 19" wide
C05-4275 20th century Chinese (Miao Minority) accordian pleated cotton skirt.
Mounted: 21¼" wide x 49¼" high
C06-4287 A very good late 19th century Naga (N.E. India/Burma) man's cotton blanket .
46¼" high x 58½" wide
C09-4327 Early 20th c. Burmese striped cotton man's mantle
71" high x 54" wide
C09-4332 Late 19th century traditional Tibetan wool panel
95" long x 44½" wide
CAM05-005 A late 19th century ceremonial cloth made from a lattice patterned silk damask.
Mounted: 31½" wide x 73½" high
CAM05-006 Mid 20th century stitch-resist tie-dyed silk (shibori) from the Cham people of Cambodia.
Mounted: 27¾" wide x 26½" high
ME02-6072 Late 19th century printed cotton from Turkey.
66" high x 70" wide
ME06-6151 19th century N.W. Persia white cotton cover.
83" high x 63" wide
ME09-6212 Early 20th century ceremonial Balinese shoulder or breast cloth
54" high x 30" wide

Embroideries Etc.

A-7018A One panel of Kuba appliqué.
27½" x 23½"
A00-7025 One small panel of Kuba appliqué with woven black lines
29" wide x 11" high
A00-7028 African Kuba ladies' ceremonial skirt.
18' 6" x 30"
A00-7029 African Kuba (Bushong) man's ceremonial skirt.
21' long x 34" wide
A00-7032 African Kuba ladies' ceremonial skirt.
9' 9" long x 29" wide
A00-7042 First half of the 20th century Kuba ceremonial skirt from the Congo.
13' 3" long x 31" wide
A01-7048 Kuba ceremonial skirt, Congo.
8'11" long x 25" wide
A01-7051 Kuba ceremonial skirt, Congo.
21'2" long x 36" wide
A02-7063 Kuba 'velvet,' a raphia cut-pile embroidery panel from the Congo.
22" high x 20½" wide
A06-7083 A late 19th century long rafia ceremonial skirt made by the Kuba people.
16'7" long x 23" wide
A06-7084 c. 1900 Fez, Morocco embroidered cover.
12½" high x 21" wide
A06-7089 c. 1890 Fez, Morocco embroidered cover.
47½" high x 52½" wide
A09-7112 An unusual early 20th century Kuba raffia velvet
26" high x 25" wide
A09-7113 Mid 20th century, Congo, ceremonial apron from the Kuba tribe
50" long x 23" wide
C06-4285 Late 19th or early 20th century wedding blanket by Buyi minority group.
60" high x 48" wide
C09-4328 Early 20th century wedding quilt cover Zhuang people.
59" long x 40" wide
C09-4330 A rare mid 20th century embroidered cotton cover, Li people.
79"long x 54" wide
C10-4334 Late 19th or early 20th century wedding blanket by Buyi minority group.
48" high x 31" wide
C10-4345 Early 20th century wedding quilt-cover, Zhuang people, Southern China.
57" high x 39" wide
ME02-6079 19th century Ottoman (Turkey) cover with green silk and metallic embroidery.
33½" x 32½"
ME02-6080 18th C. Zoroastrian (Persia, today Iran) embroidered panel.
Mounted: 49" wide x 20" high
ME03-6093 Late 19th century silk floss embroidery on cotton from India.
98½" long x 17¼" wide
ME04-6125 Modern reproduction Suzani from Uzbekistan.
67" high x 52" wide
ME05-6146 Late 18th century Ottoman silk embroidered curtain or cover.
95" high x 53½" wide
ME06-6158 Late 19th century Armenian interlaced embroidery.
67" high x 70½" wide
ME06-6171 c. 1880 Suzani (embroidery) from Uzbekistan.
58½" high x 42½" wide
ME08-6194 Early 20th century embroidered skirt panel.
101" high x 20½" wide
ME08-6196 A late 18th century silk embroidered panel on a green cotton ground called a "kaitag" from Daghestan.
46" high x 30" wide
ME09-6211 c.1900 from So. Sumatra or Java painted cotton used as a ceremonial hanging in Java.
112" high x 70½" wide
ME10-6213 Late 19th century Armenian panel with interlaced embroidery
50" high x 50" wide
ME98-6030 Late 19th century cotton Kaitag from the Caucasus region.
Mounted: 38” wide x 27¾” high
ME99-6049 18th century embroidery from Rhodes, Greece.
25½" high x 83" wide