Ethnic Textiles

including Pacific Islands, India, Middle East & Africa

Weavings

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
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
A08-7104 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
C05-4275 20th century Chinese (Miao Minority) accordian pleated cotton skirt.
Mounted: 21¼" wide x 49¼" high
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
C10-4346 Early 20th century wedding blanket by Buyi minority group Guizhoi Prov., China.
49" high x 34" wide
C11-4347 Early 20th century wedding bedcover woven by the Dong people.
54½" high x 42"
C11-4349 Early to mid 20th century from Guizhou Prov., China, Miao people, cotton wedding bed cover.
49" high x 31" wide
C11-4350 Early to mid 20th century, Guizhou Prov., China, Miao people cotton 2 panel wedding bedcover
38" high x 29" wide
C11-4352 c.1900 Bhutan wool rain cloak (charkab).
46" high x 51" wide
CAM05-005 A late 19th century ceremonial cloth made from a lattice patterned silk damask.
Mounted: 31½" wide x 73½" high
J11-5235 Early 20th century Japanese futon cover.
57" high x 48½" wide
J11-5256 Early 20th century Japanese mounted futon cover.
61" wide x 40¼" high
ME02-6072 Late 19th century printed cotton from Turkey.
66" high x 70" wide
ME09-6212 Early 20th century ceremonial Balinese shoulder or breast cloth
54" high x 30" wide
ME10-6215 19th century silk Ikat from Uzbekistan
66½" high x 43¾" wide
ME11-6217 A late 19th century ceremonial presentation scarf (lawon) from Sumatra, Indonesia.
83" high x 33¼" wide
ME11-6221 A late 19th/early 20th century silk Ikat from Uzbekistan.
80" high x 30½" wide
ME11-6222 A late 19th/early 20th century dress of silk Ikat from Uzbekistan.
49½" neck to hem x 70½" sleeve width

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
A09-7112 An unusual early 20th century Kuba raffia velvet
26" high x 25" 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
C10-4345 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
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
ME11-6226 Silk floss embroidery on cotton called a phulkari (shawl).
90" long x 54" wide
ME11-6227 Late 19th or early 20th century from Punjab, India, silk floss embroidery called a phulkari (shawl) often worn for weddings.
95½" long x 53½" wide
ME11-6230 Hand quilted printed cotton cover.
85" long x 66" wide
ME11-6231 Silk floss embroidery on cotton called a phulkari (shawl).
91" long x 51" wide
ME11-6233 A rare mid 19th century Suzani from Nurata, Uzbekistan.
88½" high x 62½" wide
ME11-6234 Early 20th century Northern Gujarat, India, embroidered dowry bag (unmade).
42" high x 38" 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