A Text-Book Textile at the Pitt Rivers Museum: Historiographical Notes on a Kongo Cushion-Cover, its Canonical Status, Dating, and Provenance

Jeremy Coote is Curator and Joint Head of Collections at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. During the 1980s his research was focused on the aesthetic traditions of South Sudan and East Africa. Since joining the staff of the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1994, his research has focused on its early collections, particularly those from Africa and the Pacific. jeremy.coote@prm.ox.ac.uk.