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Object Number 67-9-50/102.1
Display Title Scarf or cloth for the loins
Descriptions
Inventory Description Cloth, finely woven vegetable fiber, natural, sewn panels threadbare area holes
Classification
  • Fabric
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Congo
Dimensions Overall: 98.6 x 10 cm (38 13/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 67-9-50/102/ 102
Provenance
Collector Capt. George D. MacKay
Donor Boston Athenaeum (1867)

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