On Saturday 13 August, the Gardens, Animal Walk, Butterfly House and UrbanCrazy Golf will be closed for DLT: Live From Lewisham.
White strip-weave cotton undergarment designed to be worn underneath 2014.199.1, the Hausa gown (yar siki) (I). It is contsructed from thin cotton strips of fabric made on double-heddle portable loom (or horizontal frame treadle loom), and lined along the hem of each sleeve and the bottom hem with the same pink strip-weave cotton fabric with diagonal black stripes as the gown.
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