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Grass bag
Object Number 99-12-50/53270
Display Title Grass bag
Descriptions
Inventory Description Woven fiber bag, diagonal striped design, cylindrical, braided fiber ties.
Classification
  • Bag
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Mandingo?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Sierra Leone
Additional Geographic Terms West Africa
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 49.5 x 10.1 x 10.6 cm (19 1/2 x 4 x 4 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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