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1945.9.42.1

?Woman’s trousers.

1945.9.42.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
?Woman’s trousers.
Geographical reference
Ethiopia
Africa > Eastern Africa > Ethiopia
Person
Field collector Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger
PRM source Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1909-1914
Date collected
?1909-1914
Acquisition information
Donated: 1945
Materials and processes
Material Satin Textile, Material Silk Textile Animal, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Brass Metal, Process Embroidered, Process Woven
Object numbers
Accession number: 1945.9.42.1 Accession number: 1945.9.42.2
Research and responses

For a brief account of the collections donated to the PRM by Wilfred Thiesiger, see 'An Incidental Collection: Objects Donated by Wilfred Thesiger to the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Jeremy Coote, in Wilfred Thesiger in Africa, edited by Christopher Morton and Philip N. Grover (London: Harper Press, 2010), pp. 116-26. [JC 21 12 2010]

Search terms: Clothing, Ornament, Belt, Waist Cloth, Waist Ornament

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