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Fancy dress, bark
Object Number 14-50-30/86762
Display Title Fancy dress, bark
Descriptions
Inventory Description Skirt, strips of fiber tied on band
Classification
  • Skirt
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Woyawoi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / British Guiana
South America / Guyana
Materials Vegetable fiber
Dimensions Overall: 76 x 51 cm (29 15/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 86762

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Fancy dress, bark
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