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Object Number
35-50-50/1359
Display Title
Pair of ostrich plume armbands - part of medicine man's costume
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Arm bands, curved leather strips pierced with buff, brown, black plumes, fiber l
Classification
- Adornment
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Wanyamwezi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Tanzania
/
Tanganyika
Materials
Feather, Leather, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 47.9 x 18 x 5.5 cm (18 7/8 x 7 1/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
Quantity
3
Label on object
35-50-50/1359; 102-54
Credit Line
Gift of Frederick Carnochan, 1955
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