FMNH 221538.nosub[1]

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    Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History- Ethnology | 22-8 | Provenience: Ivory Coast: Abidjan | People or Culture: undetermined | Object: tie-dyed cloth | Material: [illegible word crossed out] cotton cloth (European make) | Description: an irregularly shaped piece of cloth, formerly rectangular; dyed by folding narrowly along the long axis, resulting in a pattern of parallel, undulating, blue bands on a white ground. Technical details supplied by Miss M. Moran, Div. Molluscs: folding probably done by pressing with iron; pattern made by bunching cloth- by sewing- before dyeing. | Dimensions: (in cm.) Length: 169.0; Width: 100.0. | Collection: Presented by Mrs. Susan Vogel 7 June 1968. [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 221538 | Field No. | Neg. No. A10 | Acc. 3026 [BACK] [PHOTOGRAPH]
Catalog Number: 221538.nosub[1]
Description: cloth
Materials: cotton, dye
Accession Number: [3026] S. Vogel (Gift)
Accession Year: 1968
City/Town: Abidjan
Collector/Source: Susan Vogel, Susan Vogel
EMu IRN: 1127577
GUID: 4ccde4c4-3210-49c8-a19f-664ba5a00a66

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