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Ndengese (Ndengese)
Textile panel
1950 – 1965
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1987/2.54
Rectangular panel with brown hemmed edges. The bottom edge is frayed. The design consists of a geometric diamond grid with multiple lines folding into themselves.
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Raffia Textile Panel
1935 – 1945
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Lee
1984/2.56
Brown panel with hemmed edges consisting of repetitive diamond pattern with tan and brown lines. The bottom right portion of the panel is frayed. 
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Raffia Textile Panel
1895 – 1905
Gift of Mr. David Bernstein
1984/2.75
Gold-weight in the shape of a rectangle with a figure 8 surrounded by 9 raised notches on opposite sides. 
Akan (Akan (culture or style))
Gold-weight
1895 – 1905
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Milford Golden
1986/2.139
Rectangled panel with hemmed edge consisting of two squared and two rounded edges. There are tan and brown trangular patterns partially covering the panel consisting of uneven chevrons and interlocking rectiliniar designs.
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Raffia Textile Panel
1800 – 1999
Gift of the Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communications in memory of Warren M. Robbins
2014/2.83
Square panel with tan hemmed edges divided into four quadrants. The left quadrant consists of large and medium sized diamonds. The lower right quadrant consists of a hexagonal field and the upper right quadrant consists of interlocking "x" type patterns. There is a stain (possible water damage) in the upper right quadrant.
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Raffia Textile Panel
1800 – 1999
Gift of the Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communications in memory of Warren M. Robbins
2014/2.88
Long rectangular panel with tan hemmed edges consiting of interlocked diamond patterns on the left edge with alternating triangular and multi diamond designs. 
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Raffia Textile Panel
1800 – 1999
Gift of the Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communications in memory of Warren M. Robbins
2014/2.94
A square shaped, wood tray with curved corners tray. The interior is red lacquered, and the exterior is coated with black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlays in geometric shapes.<br />
Thai
Mother-of-pearl inlayed lacquer tray with geometric designs
19th century
Gift of Doris Duke's Southeast Asian Art Collection
2005/1.468
<p>brown and light gray Ooshima tsumugi kimono with interwoven geometric motif consisting of a combination of sarasamon (square floral) motifs with a red and red-brown inner lining.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Kimono
1925 – 1999
Gift of Mrs. Kazuko Miyake
2016/2.43
<p>white, gold-speckled, and orange fukuro (singe-sided) obi with interwoven white interlocking circle motifs and dyed various geometric floral and foliage motif patterning within Tsugi gami motifs (ripped paper collage.)&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
1925 – 1999
Gift of Mrs. Kazuko Miyake
2016/2.63
Brown rectangular panel with interlocking triangular design. The tan central panel consists of tan and black triangles alternating with a tan and black diamond grid pattern. 
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Textile Fragment
1915 – 1925
Museum purchase made possible by the Betty J. Lockett Memorial Fund
1986/2.94
Square panel with intersecting lines that form a diamond pattern with checkered squares in between the intersected lines. 
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Raffia Textile Panel
1945 – 1955
Gift of the Honorable Jack Faxon
1991/2.37
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