Commemorative Textile
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Mar 1998
label: Collection Date
content: 1960
name: label: Collector
content: Polymnia C. Stephanides
label: Donor Name
content: Eleni C. Stephanides
notes: label: Notes
content: LONG, RECTANGULAR COTTON CLOTH HAS THE FOLLOWING DECORATIVE ELEMENTS: WHITE BACKGROUND IS FILLED WITH BLUE STARS. ALONG TOP AND BOTTOM EDGES ARE DARK-BLUE BORDERS WITH REPEATING YELLOW/RED LETTERING "INDEPENDANCE" WITH A YELLOW STAR BETWEEN EACH WORD. CENTER PANEL CONSISTS OF REPEATING DESIGN OF THE MAP OF CONGO IN DARK BLUE WITH KEY CITIES IDENTIFIED. YELLOW/DARK-BLUE RAYS FROM THE MAP END IN DARK-RED MAP OF EACH PROVINCE WITH THE NAME OF THE PROVINCE SUPERIMPOSED OVER THE MAP AND THE PROVINCE'S CAPITAL IDENTIFIED. ABOVE AND BELOW THE MAIN CONGO MAP ARE CAPTIONS READING "CONGO INDEPENDANTE" AND "30 JUIN 1960." (PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES DEPICTED ON THIS OBJECT WERE IN USE IN 1960 AND MANY ARE CURRENTLY OBSOLETE).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Dec 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416132
label: USNM Number
content: E428305-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 422.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 116 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 2 cm