Straw Broom
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Nov 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 2003
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Mary Jo Arnoldi
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Several small bundles of dried grass, folded over and laced together at the folded end to make a handle. The long loose ends form a broom. Laced together with light blue (synthetic/plastic?) thread. Mary Jo Arnoldi, Curator for African Ethnology, says these are made by women from local grasses... [they are] standard kitchen equipment even today in both urban and rural households". This item was purchased in Bamako market to be used as a decorative prop during the 2003 SI Folklife Festival (see accession history)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Washington, District of Columbia, Mali / United States, Africa / North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Malian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2034092
label: USNM Number
content: E432935-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Broom
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 53 cm
label: Maximum Width
content: ca. 28 cm
label: Height
content: ca. 14 cm