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Object Number 78-5-30/16773
Display Title Garment, palm fibre, painted
Descriptions
Inventory Description Costume, barkcloth with inset sleeves, built-in pointed hood, raffia fringe, pai
Classification
  • Costume
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Tupi?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Bolivia / <State> / <County> / <City> / Villa Bella
Materials Bark
Dimensions Overall: 195 x 100 cm (76 3/4 x 39 3/8 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 16773 / 788
Provenance
Collector Prof. Louis Agassiz (1878)
Collector Hassler Expedition (1878)
Donor Museum of Comparative Zoology (1878)

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