Woman's dress, ngubu

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Object Number 30-32-50/B4625

Display Title Woman's dress, ngubu

Descriptions

Inventory Description Hide clothing, cowrie shell border, sewn strips of hide, fringe.

Classification

Outerwear

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Kinga
Madehani

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Tanzania / Madehani

Additional Geographic Terms Tanganyika Territory

Materials Hide, Cowrie

Dimensions Overall: 41 x 41 x 28 cm (16 1/8 x 16 1/8 x 11 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object B4625

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30-32-50/B4620	Woman's dress, ngubu	Outerwear	Madehani
30-32-50/B4621	Woman's dress, ngubu	Outerwear	Madehani
30-32-50/B4622	Woman's dress, ngubu	Outerwear	Madehani
30-32-50/B4624	Woman's dress, ngubu	Dress	Madehani
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06-5-10/66514	Woman's dress	Dress	United States
15-36-10/86525	Woman's buckskin dress	Dress	British Columbia
69-30-10/2096	Woman's skin hood	Headdress	Yakutat Borough
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995-29-10/73920	Two piece woman's biil dress	Dress	Arizona? New Mexico?
35-50-50/1387	Pair of strips of cowhide wtih cowrie shells worn looped over narrow +	Accessory	Tanganyika

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