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VERY RARE BAKUBA CHILD'S MAPEL
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Pre 1920 item# 620986
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Bakuba Peoples, Congo. This rare textile is actually a little boy's skirt; among the Bakuba, both men and women wear these wrap-around garments, known as "Mapel" when male garments, and "Ntshak" denotes female. There are definite characteristics that differentiate between the two, among which are the distinct raffia 'pom-pons' or balls, which decorate the border; a male characteristic, this. Measuring 44" x 17 1/2" (114 x 44.5 cm.), this antique garme ...click for details
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ROYAL BAKUBA NTSHAKABWIIN
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Pre 1920 item# 620954
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Bakuba Peoples, Congo. This textile is a Royal woman's overskirt; "ntshak-" for a woman's garment, and in this example, a center field (the "Mboom") of cut-pile work in red. The border exhibits the 'Richileu' embroidery the Bakuba are noted for; a noted aspect of Ntshakabwiin skirts such as this one. Measuring approximately 65" x 23 1/2" (165 x 60 cm.), this Ntshakabwiin has some losses and could be cleaned - but how this must have been danced in, ...click for details
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ROYAL BAKUBA RED NTSHAKAKOT
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Pre 1920 item# 620945
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Bakuba Peoples, Congo. This garment is a Royal Queen's overskirt - "Ntshakakot" - defined by the undulating edge, unique to the Bakuba; also unique is the manner of their rolling the Ntshakakot for storage - interleaving the ruffled edges (see Cornet or Mort, also image). With the center field ("Mboom") of embroidered abstract designwork that the Bakuba are noted for and seen in their voluminous "Ntshakiswepys" which this "Ntshakakot" covered, and an e ...click for details
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ROYAL BAKUBA NTSHAKISHEEN WITH WOOT DESIGN
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Pre 1920 item# 620916
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Bakuba Peoples, Congo. This is a Royal Bushongo Queen's overskirt, called a "Ntshakisheen" - "Ntshak-" for a woman's garment, and the use of barkcloth in the center ("Mboom") denoting the type of Ntshak, hence "Ntshakisheen". Worn only by the highest ranking women at Court, this shows the traditional "Richileu" embroidered edge, but in this example the embroidery is executed in the revered "Woot" design - as, the Bakuba call th ...click for details
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FANTASTIC BAKUBA ROYAL QUEEN'S SKIRT
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Pre 1920 item# 612397
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Superb and extremely rare! This extraordinary textile is known as a "Ntshawabwiin", an overskirt, but from the "Labot Latwool" class of garments - those reserved exclusively for Royalty! Measuring approximately - and comprised of a hand-woven Raffia Palm fabric (among the Bakuba, it is the men, interestingly, who do the weaving) backing, with barkcloth "Ikuuk Mayeeng" - reserved exclusively for Royalty - with Dutch tile Trade beads, Cowrie shells (both reserved for ...click for details
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SUPERB KUBA BUSHONGO MAPEL
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Pre 1920 item# 597147
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Kuba Peoples, Congo. This is a superb Kuba Bushongo textile - a tour d'force of Bushongo textile art, showing all of their best techniques in one magnificent example. Made as a young man's skirt, or 'Mapel', this interestingly was made for a man not of any Royal or noble status, but by the mastery of Kuba textile traditions, status indeed! Woven of raffia (raffia viniferis) (and interestingly, among the Kuba, it is the men who do the weaving), but further embellished with Busho ...click for details
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SUPERB KUBA SHOOWA NTSHAKABWIIN
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Pre 1920 item# 597137
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Kuba Peoples, Congo. This is a superb textile, made by the Shoowa sub-tribe of the Kuba, made as a tribute cloth to the Royal court of the ruling Bushongo tribe, in the form of a Royal overskirt, or "ntshabwiin". Measuring approximately 75" x 20" (191 x 51 cm.) and mounted on a custom stretched canvas frame measuring approximately 81 1/2" x 28 1/2" (207.5 x 71.5 cm.) Made never to be worn, but only displayed, the 'cut-pile' technique used here, artfully, is ...click for details
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SUPERB ROYAL KUBA BUSHONGO NTSHAKABWIIN
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Pre 1920 item# 597126
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Kuba Peoples, Congo. This object was reserved for wear only by the highest ranking women at the Royal Court of the Kuba. An overskirt - worn over the voluminous ntshakiswepy - this is complete textile, as one border was never seen. Constructed of hand woven raffia fiber (raffia viniferis), both the border and the field on this example are done in finely sewn 'Richileu' embroidery - a hallmark of Bushongo work, and their most revered (the Bushongo are the central, and ruling tribe, amo ...click for details
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