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Modesty Cloth

2013.04.0103

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Artifact Identification Modesty Cloth   (2013.04.0103)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Personal Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Clothing
    3. :
  3. Main Garments
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period N/A
Date 2012
Culture WaiWai
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 32 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 23.8 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) .27 cm
Weight 203 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials N/A
Manufacturing Processes Beaded

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Roth, Walter Edmund. An Introductory Study of the Arts, Crafts, and Customs of the Guiana Indians. The Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1916-17. Reprinted 1970 by Johnson Reprint Corporation.

Yde, Jens. Material Culture of the Waiwai. Nationalmuseets Skrifter Etnografisk Rakke, X. Copenhagen: National Museum of Copenhagen, 1965.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Kieffer-Lopez Collection
Reproduction N/A

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