Karosse (hide garment) - worn by men – Objects

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Object Number 56-57-50/9854

Display Title Karosse (hide garment) - worn by men

Descriptions

Indigenous Term Karosses

Inventory Description Hide and leather garment, fur covered sewn panels, perforated edges

Classification

Outerwear
Pouch

Department Ethnographic

Culture

San
G//ana

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa

Additional Geographic Terms Africa, Southwest; Bechuanaland; Chukudu, near

Materials Hide

Dimensions Overall: 98 x 116 x 0.8 cm (38 9/16 x 45 11/16 x 5/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 56-57-50/9854

Provenance

Expedition Peabody Museum Southwest Africa Expedition

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PrimaryMedia	Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
	56-57-50/9854.1	Karosse (hide garment) - worn by men	Outerwear	Africa
	971-2-50/11552	Kaross, front composed of panels of various brown and tan colored hides stitched	Outerwear	Africa
	58-43-50/10256.1	Quiver of horn (hide closing & leather thong) with 3 iron arrows in it	Outerwear	Africa
	05-7-10/64769	Moose hide armor, belongs with 05-7-10/64529 (probably)	Raw Material Armor	Alaska
	2001.29.8811	Karosses hanging on a line inside the compound of Boy Moapane, brother of the Kgalagari chief		Hukuntsi
	2001.29.31017	[No folder title]: Women carrying loads of tsama melons in their karosses tied over their heads		/Ai Ha !O Pan
	2001.29.21130	Women carrying loads of tsama melons in their karosses tied over their heads		/Ai Ha !O Pan
	2001.29.27739	Two men lying on the ground, wrapped in karosses (print is a cropped image)		/Ai Ha !O Pan
	2001.29.21484	Two men lying on the ground, wrapped in karosses		/Ai Ha !O Pan
Media Restricted	24-48-60/D2088.1	Pouch, hide, hair panels with red wool trim, hide ties, worn, shedding	Shaft, modified Pouch	Siberia
	2001.29.30391.2	[No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)		Gautscha
Media Restricted	2001.29.7967	Four women standing not wearing karosses before the Eland Dance, seen from behind		Gwia

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