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Back adornment, a component of the mourning garment for women
Back ornament, part of the mourning dress for women
At the bottom edge is a short fibre fringe, several chains of grey fruit pips and two bundles of black wood, arched and rounded sticks. These small arches indicate, according to Wirz, that a young man of the Ewati class is being mourned.
Type of item
- Rouwkostuum
Date
- voor 1954
Medium
- Material: fibres
- Material: vegetable origin materials
- fibres
- vegetable origin materials
- Plant material
- Fiber
Type of item
- Rouwkostuum
Date
- voor 1954
Medium
- Material: fibres
- Material: vegetable origin materials
- fibres
- vegetable origin materials
- Plant material
- Fiber
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1954
Provenance
- 1954-10-08
- Schenking
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/78544
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- black
- ambergris
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z