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Garment (Nkutu)
Not on view
Prestige capes made of raffia fiber were worn by Kongo male elites from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The netlike waist-length garment was made using a form of knotting. The garment opens at the center and terminates on either end with a tassel-like bundle of warp threads. The pattern alternates between zigzags of plain-weave and large open-weave apertures.
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