Rectangular woven woollen woman’s body wrap, kira, check pattern. The squares are woven in maroon and black and edged with narrow yellow and white lines. A strip of white fabric patterned with woven checks in red and black lines both long edges of the wrap and continues for a short way along the shorter edges, which are hemmed.
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