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Object Number 21-28-50/B2757
Display Title Girl's bustle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bustle, vegetable fiber, woven middle, long, strands (knotted at ends) both ends
Classification
  • Bustle
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Basa?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms West Africa
Dimensions Overall: 29.7 x 12 x 2 cm (11 11/16 x 4 3/4 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 21-28-50/B-2757; B2757

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