Burial shroud
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Jan 2004
label: Collection Date
content: Jun 2000
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Sarah Fee
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of African Art
notes: label: Notes
content: Burial shroud. Plain brown background, with two bands of warp stripes down the center of each panel. Stripes are black, white, bright green, and bright pink. Bands of white supplementary weft patterning near the ends. Made of two long panels sewn together. Warp-predominant plain weave. Single-ply Z-spun yarn. Ends are hemmed.
label: Notes
content: Materials: Commercially spun cotton (fole miline); the red dye is nato tree bark (vongo); the black dye is from eucalyptus leaves and mud; the yellow is saffron. Weaver was Betsileo from the region of Ambohimahamasina. Purchased from a shroud seller at the Saturday market in Mahitsy for 60,000 FMG ($9.42 US).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ambohimahamasina / Mahitsy, Madagascar, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Betsileo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2028638
label: USNM Number
content: E430762-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shroud
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 202 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 130 cm