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Object Number 80-24-50/23091.1
Display Title Grass cloth
Descriptions
Inventory Description Cloth, finely woven vegetable fiber, natural color, fringed edges
Classification
  • Fabric
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Materials Grass
Dimensions Overall: 116 x 9.4 x 0.1 cm (45 11/16 x 3 11/16 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 80-24-50/23091
Provenance
Donor Boston Society of Natural History (1880)

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