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Object Number 992-27-30/11666
Display Title Sleeping hammock, vegetable fiber
Descriptions
Object Description Sleeping hammock, vegetable fiber
Inventory Description Woven, netted hammock, natural color, braided fiber handles.
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Hammock
Department Ethnographic
Date 1931-1992
Culture
  • Yaruro
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Venezuela
Dimensions Overall: 83.5 x 46 x 4.8 cm (32 7/8 x 18 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Anthony Leeds (ca. 1958)
Donor Dr. Elizabeth Leeds (12/9/92)

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