Roller print cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jan 2015
label: Collection Date
content: 1980s
name: label: Collector
content: Theresa Steverlynck
label: Donor Name
content: Theresa Steverlynck
notes: label: Notes
content: A length of cloth, used as a wrapper, printed with drawings of a village in Niger with trees and the words "Pour un Niger vert" (for a Green Niger). Two women are cooking on an improved stove: the "city women" on a metallic stove made by artisans of scrap iron and sold on the market; the "village women" (thatched conic roofs) on a mason-built (mud) "ban-ak-suuf." According to curator Mary Jo Arnoldi, in the Hausa(?) language, the metal stoves are called "mai sauki" and the mud stoves "albarka." "Ban-ak-suuf" was used for the Sahel region (the name probably comes from Burkina Faso). The donor, Theresa Steverlynck, worked in development for the Dutch in Niger in the late 1980s. This cloth was printed to commemorate one of the improved stove projects (called the banaksuuf program) she worked on, and was given to the donor as a gift. The cloth encourages the use of the improved stoves in Nigerien households. The French slogan on the cloth is “Pour une Niger vert” (For a green Niger). The donor also noted phrases in Hausa or Fulani.
label: Notes
content: Cloth design has two identical sections of repeating rolled print pattern oriented parallel to the selvedges. The pattern on each section is offset from each other. The repeating pattern design shows a large tree under which women are cooking on stoves outside their dwellings. The background is blue, the clothing of the women is yellow and green, and the buildings and ground are red and brown. A red sun is visible behind the tree. The cut ends are unfinished and unhemmed.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Nov 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Niger, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
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content: Ethnology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2071768
label: USNM Number
content: E435074-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wrapper
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Width - Selvedge To Selvedge
content: 112.5 cm
label: Maximum Length - Cut Edge To Cut Edge
content: 171.5 cm