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Object Number 2010.5.36090
Display Title Twisting rawhide to make rope
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Dwelling
  • Manufacture and General Utility
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Leatherwork
  • Man
  • Tent
  • Woman
  • Yurt
Department Photographic
Date 1932
Artist Owen Lattimore
Culture
  • Mongolian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / China / Inner Mongolia
Dimensions Overall: 3.81 x 6.35 cm (1 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)

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