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Technical Photography

Straw sandals and the plants that provide the raw materials for weaving including inner bark of birch trees, cattail leaves, maize skin (corn husks), rice straw and the inner bark of jute plants.

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Technical photographic studies of items in The Collection done in natural light:

China 7a (SCn4)
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Straw Sandals Project News

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