Mantle

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Object Number 2004.24.31909A

Display Title Mantle

Descriptions

Object Description Chief's shoulder cape. Woven fiber textile with two fiber handles.

Keywords

Clothing and Accessory
Ethnographic

Subject

Mantle Priestige

Department Photographic

Date 1988

Artist Hillel S. Burger

Culture

Central Bantu

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Congo

Materials Negative, black and white

Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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