Mudcloth (bogolanfini)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
name: label: Donor Name
content: Barbara Hoffman
notes: label: Notes
content: The third in a series of six cloths (catalog numbers E436265-E436270) showing steps in the manufacture of mud cloth (bogolanfini). The cloth is made of two strips each approximately 5.5 inches wide, whip-stitched together. One surface has been decorated with a linear geometric design using a dark purple-brown, fine-grained mud apparently applied with a brush. Most of the decorated areas have a a thin but noticeble accumulation of the mud. A label with the cloth reads "after first application of fermented mud."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Dec 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mali, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Malian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2083986
label: USNM Number
content: E436267-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Cloth
content: 212 cm
label: Width - Cloth
content: 29 cm