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Object Number 99-12-70/53505
Display Title Woman's cape
Descriptions
Inventory Description Cape, 2 tiered banded fiber fringe on woven base, braided edge with 2 cords
Classification
  • Cape
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Maori
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Zealand
Dimensions Overall: 125 x 72 x 3.9 cm (49 3/16 x 28 3/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1 cape and 1 bag of fragments
Label on object 53505
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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