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Object Number 2006.38.136
Display Title Girl's "elima" skirt
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Elima
Object Description Girl's "elima" skirt; traces of blue-green color at waist
Inventory Description Skirt, fiber strips, bound and threaded at top end
Classification
  • Skirt
Department Ethnographic
Date 1980 or earlier
Culture
  • Efe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Zaire
Additional Geographic Terms Ituri Forest
Dimensions Overall: 59 x 26 x 20 cm (23 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2006.38.136
Credit Line In memory of Diane Dixon-Daniel, gift of Renee Bertrand
Provenance
Owner Lavi Daniel (1993)
Owner Diane Dixon (1993)
Collector Jean-Pierre Hallet (Before 1980? - 1993)
Donor Renee C. Bertrand

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