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Object Number 99-12-70/53650
Display Title Grass cloth
Descriptions
Inventory Description Cloth, woven fiber, rectangular, natural, brown and red bands, fringed
Classification
  • Fabric
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Solomon islands
Additional Geographic Terms Santa Cruz Islands
Dimensions Overall: 49 x 45 x 2.5 cm (19 5/16 x 17 11/16 x 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 99-12-70/53650
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor L. Cushing Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton

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