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Object Number 17-41-50/B2040
Display Title Light grass cloths - sewn and fringed
Descriptions
Inventory Description Cloth, woven fiber panels stitched with dark fiber thread, fringed
Classification
  • Fabric
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bakuba?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Congo
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 124 x 8.8 x 10.8 cm (48 13/16 x 3 7/16 x 4 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 17-41-50/B-2040; B-2040

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