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Object Number 994-20-50/12399
Display Title Skirt
Descriptions
Object Description Resist-dyed textile ntshak with bands of lozenge shaped motifs in brown and buff
Inventory Description Woven fiber textile, rectangular, black with dyed red ovals.
Classification
  • Woven
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Kuba
  • Kuba
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Zaire
Dimensions Overall: 67 x 549 cm (26 3/8 x 216 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 994-20-50/12399
Provenance
Collector James W. Lankton (1988 - 6/21/1994)
Donor James W. Lankton (1988 - 6/21/1994)

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