- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pair of sandals.
- Geographical reference
- Gran Sabana Kwatin River Eruwaui River
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1957
- Date collected
- April - Spetember 1957
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1958
- Materials and processes
- Material Palm Leaf Plant, Material Palm Fibre Plant
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1958.3.18.1-2
- Research and responses
I can find no reference to Taulebang in Ethnologue or Encyclopedia. However there is a Taulipang group listed which could be the same. [JP 17/8/2000]
Search terms: Clothing Footgear, Sandal
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