- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Rags from a desert rag-bush.
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1917
- Date collected
- By 1917
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1917
- Materials and processes
- Material Textile, Material Plant Thorn, Process Woven, Process Recycled
- Dimensions
- Length: max 169 mm box
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1917.53.665
- Research and responses
Rag-bush, a bush on which rags are fixed as a superstitious observance. [Oxford English Dictionary Online] [CF 1/5/2001]
Search terms: Religion, Textile, Clothing, Religious Offering
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