Breech cloth

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Object Number 11-43-30/82984

Display Title Breech cloth

Descriptions

Inventory Description Breech cloth, woven with fringe and feathers at end

Classification

Outerwear

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Woyawoi

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

South America / British Guiana
South America / Guyana

Materials Cotton, Feather

Dimensions Overall: 77 x 14 cm (30 5/16 x 5 1/2 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 82984

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Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
11-43-30/82983.1	Breech cloths	Outerwear	Guyana British Guiana
11-43-30/82983.2	Breech cloths	Outerwear	Guyana British Guiana
15-36-10/86556	Man's long breech clout of red cotton cloth. Embroidered with flower designs in silk.	Outerwear	British Columbia
52-4-70/3549	Plant fiber leggings or breech cloths	Outerwear	Kundiawa
78-5-30/16774	Scarf?, apron, or breech cloth	Clothing	Amazonas
971-2-50/11561	Breech clout; skin dyed red; skin has been peeled off animal in one piece; waist	Outerwear	Africa
15-36-10/86548	Man's breech clout	Outerwear	British Columbia
23-47-70/D1802	Breech cloth of tapa	Tapa	Solomon islands
39-17-70/1139	Man's bark cloth breech clout	Bark cloth	Sanke Doek
55-4-10/34871.1	Breech cloth, red, blue, and black	Breechcloth	Arizona
39-17-70/1138	Man's brown bark cloth breech clout	Bark cloth	Sanke Doek
64-18-70/4401	Baby's bark breech cloth	Underwear	Indonesia New Guinea

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