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Carter No.: 050b

Handlist description: Three tight rolls of light brown cloth. (Loin-cloths.)

Card/Transcription No.: 050b


50 (b) Contents (cont.)

(b) <> 92 27.5 1.17

Underneath (a) 3 tight rolls of light brown cloth length of roll 12 cm., W. 5, circumf. 12.

These opened out into precisely similar loin cloths.

Made in two pieces, with a seam down centre. This was done for strength, as cloth cut bias.

Band 1 cm. wide at top turned over and hemmed. All other edges oversewn.

Cp. Carnarvon - Carter, Five Years, p. 83. No. 64 Pl. LXIX. No treatment.

Card no. 050b relating to Carter no. 050b
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