Woman's Skirt
Cleveland Museum of Art

Woman's Skirt

late 1800s–about 1906–12

Raffia palm fiber (Raphia ruffia or R. vinifera) and dye
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The diamond motifs on this skirt have symbolic and cosmological links to lizards (<em>mbil</em>), an animal associated with matrilineal (female descent) clans.

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