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Silk Embroidery
1700 – 1730
The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1972/2.271
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
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
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
A square appliqué cloth with two narrative registers separated by two rows of squares, each bisected with solid and factory printed plaid cloth; the top and bottom border are a similar checked motif. Red, black and white predominate. The top narrative panel has a stylized leopard and six human figures in festive dress, playing musical instruments. Lower panel shows four figures in festive dress, and an ox feeding from a bucket. All the images and figures are appliquéd.
Okon Akpan Abuje
Funerary Shrine Cloth
1955 – 1965
Gift of Lewis and Margaret Zerby
1987/1.251
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
A thin rectangular box with a lid. Four metal button-like objects are fastened on four coins from the belgian Congo—from 1921—on the base and lid of the box. There is a bulging ornate design on the center of the lid, and geometric patterns cover the entire box. One corner of the lid has a splinter broken off. 
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Box
1945 – 1955
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1984/2.29
Rectangular panel with dark brown and tan alternating rectangular boxes that form a checkered pattern along the right and left edges. There is a diamond pattern created by intersecting cowrie shells. In between the diamond patterns are intersecting uneven chevrons made from beads. The background of this panel is brown in color.
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Skirt
1945 – 1955
Museum purchase made possible by the Betty J. Lockett Memorial Fund
1986/2.95
Tan and gold panel with two hemmed horizontal edges and two frayed vertical edges. The pattern consists of large interlocking diamond shapes. 
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
2014/2.86
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