Widow's grass (raffia) skirt

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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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987-6-70/5597	Grass skirt	Skirt	Papua New Guinea
37-32-50/2426	Grass skirt - worn in front, tying behind and worn only when dancing	Skirt	Cameroon
35-31-50/1297	Raffia fibre skirt	Skirt	Cameroon
35-31-50/1296	Raffia fibre skirt	Skirt	Cameroon

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