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Carter No.: 046l

Handlist description: Triangular loin-cloth

Card/Transcription No.: 046l


46 (l) Triangular Loin cloth. 16

Flat pad 9 x 8 x about 1 thick. Tied round near one end with a single thread. Almost certainly one of the ordinary triangular kind, as a corner protruded. Left intact to show binding thread. This of finer linen than majority at any rate of other loin-cloths.

Sprayed with a solution of cellulose acetate in acetone.

Card no. 046l relating to Carter no. 046l
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