- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Sample of cotton cloth.
- Geographical reference
- Lake Tanganyika
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1889
- Date collected
- By 1889
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1889
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Raffia Leaf Plant, Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Process Woven, Process Beaten
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1889.13.3
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