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Object Number
22-2-50/B3022
Display Title
Widow's grass (raffia) skirt
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Skirt, dried grass strands knotted onto twisted vegetable fiber waistband
Classification
- Skirt
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Basa?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms
Cameroon, southern
Materials
Grass, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 56 x 39.5 x 3.6 cm (22 1/16 x 15 9/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
22-2-50/B3022; B-3022
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|
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| |
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