- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Girl’s skirt or loin-cloth.
- Cultural groups
- Fulani
- Person
- Field collector Francis James Rennell Rodd
- PRM source Francis James Rennell Rodd
- PRM source Henry Balfour
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1945
- Date collected
- By 1945
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1945
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1945.6.134
Search terms: Clothing, Status, Groin-cover, Skirt
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