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Skirt
Museum number:
5-15459
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015459
Accession number:
Acc.4477
Object count:
1
Description:
Skirt ("hanangwend") section. Leather gore with leather strip fringes (goat skin). Length about 60 centimeters. From Africa, Tanzania, Dawari; Datoga, Barabaig. Context of use: section of married woman's skirt, for daily wear.
Donor:
University Research Expeditions Program
Collection place:
Dawar, Tanzania
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Tanzania; Dawari attr.; Datoga; Barabaig
Culture or time period:
Barabaig
Collector:
Jean Colvin
Collection date:
August, 1988
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Skirts (garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
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