"Top Knotch" - Knot? Bag

Unidentified Baca maker

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1965

Cloth and beads

Overall: 4 × 4 1/2 × 3 in. (10.2 × 11.4 × 7.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

166.1.15888

Geography

Place Made: Transkei, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Personal Gear: Bag

Research Area

Africa

Textiles and Costumes

Not on view

Provenance

J. R. Ivy, Ltd., Pretoria, South Africa; purchased by Professor James W. Fernandez for the Dartmouth College Museum, 1965; sold to present collection, 1966.

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