wash cloth
date: label: date made
content: 1990s
notes: label: Description
content: Hand-crocheted lifka or lefka used by Iraqi Kurdish people as a washcloth to scrub the face and body. This lifka is diamond hsaped with a long tail at the top ending in a loop, presumably for hanging to dry. Crocheted in two pieces that are crocheted together on the edges. Yarn is comprised of a brown twine-like ply and an opaque, flexible plastic ply.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Iraq
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Clothing & Accessories
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Abdul H. Rahman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0160.03
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0160.03
label: accession number
content: 2011.0160
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wash cloth
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic and raffia (?) (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 5/8 in x 8 1/2 in x 3/8 in; 49.8475 cm x 21.59 cm x .9525 cm