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Object Number 2007.19.1
Display Title Kente cloth strip
Descriptions
Object Description Kente cloth strip
Inventory Description Clothing, woven fiber, red, orange, green, black stripes, black fringe
Classification
  • Accessory
Department Ethnographic
Date 1983 or earlier
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Zambia
Materials Cotton, Dye
Dimensions Overall: 10.67 x 177.8 cm (4 3/16 x 70 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2007.19.1
Credit Line Gift of Norman Hammond
Provenance
Collector Eugenia West (1983)
Donor Norman Hammond (12/28/07)

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