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Men's "clothes" of bark covered with lizard skin
Men's "clothes" of bark covered with lizard skin
Object Number 35-31-50/1278
Display Title Men's "clothes" of bark covered with lizard skin
Descriptions
Inventory Description Box, bark strips sewn w/ vegetable fiber, conical, ovate rim, reptile skin cover
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bafia
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms Cameroon, southern
Materials Lizard skin, Bark, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions Overall: 2.7 x 5.3 x 3.1 cm (1 1/16 x 2 1/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 35-31-50/1278

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