woman's skirt length, cotton, indigo dye, African (Mali) stored in box; stored w/ 85.125.2,5,11 Name: Gala Pere, meaning simple indigo. Designs: nonsirikokohou (fingernails): sarkoudiou guire tanou (three pairs of straight lines side by side) Combination of these two designs is considered very beautiful by the Dogon near Bankass. A newly married woman would wear this wrapper. She would also wear it after she had born a second child and joined her husband's family.

Woman's Skirt Length, 20th century

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Woman's Skirt Length
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85.125.1
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woman's skirt length, cotton, indigo dye, African (Mali) stored in box; stored w/ 85.125.2,5,11 Name: Gala Pere, meaning simple indigo. Designs: nonsirikokohou (fingernails): sarkoudiou guire tanou (three pairs of straight lines side by side) Combination of these two designs is considered very beautiful by the Dogon near Bankass. A newly married woman would wear this wrapper. She would also wear it after she had born a second child and joined her husband's family.