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29-201-460

From: Morocco

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-201-460
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Morocco
Section African
Materials Cotton
Description

Used in Good Friday ceremonies in Orthodox church. One width of thin, loosely woven white cotton, with selvage on sides. Printed with black: angel heads, seals of church, skull and cross bones and instruments of the Passion, inscription in modern Greek. See 29-201-457 to -459.

Length 178 cm
Width 73 cm
Credit Line Williams Moroccan Expedition; Talcott Williams and Sophia Wells Royce Williams, 1898

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