Materials For Palm Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Oct 1896
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. D W. Snyder
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "STRIPPED LEAF, POUNDED LEAF AND FABRIC. "THEY SPLIT IT, THE PALM LEAF, BY FIRST PULLING OFF THE OUTER PART WHICH IS COARSE AND LEAVING THE INNER PART FINE. THEN THEY SHRED IT VERY FINE AND PUT INTO A LARGE MORTAR IN WATER AND BEAT IT UNTIL IT BECOMES VERY SOFT" (ACC. PAPERS) THE ITEMS IN THIS GROUP ILLUSTRATE THE RAW FIBRE, THE SOFTENED FIBRE AND THE FINISHED CLOTH. THIS IS A DUPLICATE CATALOG CARD FOR CAT. NO. 175907 THE ORIGINAL CARD IS MISSING."
label: Notes
content: 27 parts: 1 Bag of loose fibers, 5 bundles of fibers, and 21 woven cloth samples.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Apr 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 27
place: label: Place
content: Kasai River, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Not Certain) / Angola (Not Certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kuba
label: Culture
content: (Ba Kuba)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 031155
label: USNM Number
content: E175907-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth