Basketry calabash cover
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Nov 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1979 to 1980
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: Flat, round calabash cover. Coil basketry, mostly natural color, with black elements forming stripes and zig-zag line.
label: Notes
content: Donor's notes describe this as a "very old Peul [Fulani] calabash cover (leyfa)...These leyfa were/are still used to decorate the interior ceilings of [Fulani] dwellings in the region around Mali and Yambering." References: See a similar leyfa in Normand 1902-3. "L'art et habitation en Guinea francaise." Haselberger, H. 1964. Bautraditionen der westafrikanischen Negerkulturen. Plate 47. Also see Phototheque Musee de l'Homme for other examples.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Futa Djallon, Guinea, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fulani
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420734
label: USNM Number
content: E431650-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Calabash Cover
physicalDescription: label: Diameter
content: 36 cm