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Object Number 990-5-50/12232
Display Title Skirt
Descriptions
Object Description Skirt.
Inventory Description Skirt, woven fiber band with hanging fiber strands
Classification
  • Skirt
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hutu?
  • Tutsi?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Rwanda / Butare
Dimensions Overall: 36 x 7.5 cm (14 3/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object Codere 81/ 990-5-50/12232
Provenance
Collector Dr. Helen Codere (1959-1960 - 05/15/90)
Donor Dr. Helen Codere (1959-1960 - 05/15/90)

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