Skirt
Artist Unidentified
20th century, 1950–2000
Object PlaceCote d'Ivoire
Medium/TechniqueFiber, pigment
DimensionsOverall: 96 x 84 cm (37 13/16 x 33 1/16 in.)
Lender accessory (Mount, approximately): 108 x 47.5 x 17 cm (42 1/2 x 18 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Lender accessory (Plexiglas case, approximately): 108 x 47.5 x 17 cm (42 1/2 x 18 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Lender accessory (Mount, approximately): 108 x 47.5 x 17 cm (42 1/2 x 18 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Lender accessory (Plexiglas case, approximately): 108 x 47.5 x 17 cm (42 1/2 x 18 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Geneviève McMillan in memory of Reba Stewart
Accession number2009.2768
On View
Not on viewClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionDida skirts are cloth "cylinders" worn as loincloths by women and as garments by men. Women weavers interlaced dried fibers of the raffia palm by hand, then outlined the design in raffia-thread stitches, and tie-dyed the cloth in yellow, red, and black.
ProvenancePurchased either in 1959, Paris, or in the 1960s, Abijan, Côte d'Ivoire, by Geneviève McMillan (b. 1922 - d. 2008), Cambridge, MA; 2008, to the Geneviève McMillan and Reba Stewart Foundation, Cambridge; 2009, gift of the Geneviève McMillan and Reba Stewart Foundation to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 17, 2009)
mid 20th-century
early 20th century
mid 20th century
