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Object Number 98-3-50/51495
Display Title Grass cloth garment; full dress for men and women
Descriptions
Object Description Grass cloth garment
Inventory Description Garment?, woven vegetable fiber, fringed edges, fringes at end tied together
Classification
  • Woven
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Fiote
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Additional Geographic Terms Congo River
Dimensions Overall: 75 x 0.5 cm (29 1/2 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 51495

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