Hammock
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Nov 1894
name: label: Donor Name
content: Glen Island Museum Of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "WOVEN GRASS. IF THIS HAMMOCK IS OF AFRICAN ORIGIN, IT REPRESENTS A CASE OF CULTURAL BORROWING FROM SOUTH AMERICA-GDG. LOWIE (AN INTRO. TO CULTURAL ANTHRO., P. 100) SAYS "NATIVES OF TROPICAL SOUTH AMERICA INVENTED THE HAMMOCK." LEROI-GOURHAN IN EVOLUTION ET TECHNIQUES, VOL. 2 "MILLIEU ET TECHNIQUES" (PARIS, 1945) SAYS ON PG. 296: "LE HAMAC, ORIGINAIRE DE L'AMAZONE S'ETEND AUTOUR DE CETTE REGION VERS LE SUD ET VERS LE MEXIQUE." IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE THAT THIS SPECIMAN IS AFRICAN, HOWEVER. IN DIE TECHNIK DER VORZEIT, DER GESCHICHTLICHEN ZEIT UND DER NATURVOLKER BY F.M. FELDHAUS, P. 886, AN AFRICAN HAMMOCK IS REPORTED: "EINE PALMBAST-HANGEMATTE DES 18 JAHRH. AUS GUINEA BEFINDET SICH IM MUSEUM ZU NIESKY IN DER LAUSITZ." HAMMOCKS, ALONG WITH MAIZE, TOBACCO, MANIOC AND OTHER CULTURAL ITEMS FROM SOUTH AMERICA APPARENTLY WERE ADOPTED IN WEST AFRICA SHORTLY AFTER CONTACT HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 59 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans (Musical)".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: West Africa, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028638
label: USNM Number
content: E169020-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hammock