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Object Number
64-18-70/4401
Display Title
Baby's bark breech cloth
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Bark cloth band, wrapped with twisted fiber cordage
Classification
- Underwear
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Dani
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
New Guinea
Oceania / Indonesia
Oceania / Indonesia
Additional Geographic Terms
Grand Valley of Baliem; Kutelu Area
Materials
Bark , Fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 16 × 11 × 5.1 cm (6 5/16 × 4 5/16 × 2 in.)
Quantity
1
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64-18-70/4402 | Baby's bark breech cloth |
Felted
|
Indonesia
New Guinea | |
| 39-17-70/1139 | Man's bark cloth breech clout |
Bark cloth
|
Sanke Doek
| |
| 39-17-70/1138 | Man's brown bark cloth breech clout |
Bark cloth
|
Sanke Doek
| |
| 09-7-70/74510 | Bark cloth breech clouts |
Bark cloth
|
Luzon
| |
| 23-47-70/D1802 | Breech cloth of tapa |
Tapa
|
Solomon islands
| |
| 17-41-50/B2051 | Bark breech-clout |
Bark cloth
|
Congo
| |
| 46-26-20/17223 | Woman's underpants of brown and beige painted bark cloth |
Underwear
|
Panama
| |
| 56-57-50/9856 | Skin breech clout |
Underwear
|
Africa
| |
| 2004.24.42509 | Baby's bark cap from a collection through G. Nicholson. Plaited. |
United States
| ||
| 46-26-20/17224 | Woman's underpants of brown and black painted bark cloth |
Raw Material
Underwear |
Panama
| |
| 52-4-70/3549 | Plant fiber leggings or breech cloths |
Outerwear
|
Kundiawa
| |
| 08-36-70/74223 | Man's breech clout, used by poorer classes |
Loincloth
|
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Eastern Lepanto |