Skirt

Museum number:
5-228
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.334
Description:
Skirt, fringed leather w/ strings of snail and cowrie shells and glass trade beads; very poor condition
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Sudan
Verbatim coll. place:
Nubian Hills att.
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Cowrie shell, Glass (material) (beads), and Leather
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Skirts (garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Loans:
S1952-1953 #2: California Palace of the Legion of Honor (dates unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 5-228, described as Skirt, fringed leather w/ strings of snail and cowrie shells and glass trade beads; very poor condition
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 5-228, described as Skirt, fringed leather w/ strings of snail and cowrie shells and glass trade beads; very poor condition

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