81 FIG. 2 (below): Overskirt. Kuba, Bushoong group, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Late 19th–early 20th century. Collected by William H. Sheppard, 1890–1910. Bark cloth. 15 x 62.2 cm. Hampton University Museum, William H. Sheppard, 11.168. Photo courtesy of Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA. Photo: Mr. Alexander Kravitz. FIG. 3 (bottom): Woman’s skirt, ncák. Kuba, Bushoong group, northern Kete (?), Democratic Republic of the Congo. Late 19th century. Collected by Captain Adolphe-Henri- Albert de Macar, 1885–88. Raffia, appliqué. 62 x 380 cm. Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, EO.0.0.17643. Photo: J.-M. Vandyck; © Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren. The skirts and overskirts selected from the MRAC, whose vast holdings include approximately 500 textiles attributed to the Kuba, constitute a small but historically important sample, and none have previously traveled to the United States. They include the earliest-documented Kuba skirts, which were collected in 1885–88 by the colonial administrator Captain Adolphe-Henri-Albert de Macar (fig. 3), as well as others acquired at the turn of the twentieth century and during the 1920s and 1930s. There are also examples collected in the 1950s by anthropologist and director of the MRAC, Albert Maesen, whose notes are the
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