Man's Shirt "Hu ronko"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Jun 2007
label: Collection Date
content: 1978 to 1979
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Simon Ottenberg
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Simon Ottenberg
notes: label: Notes
content: Man's shirt. Standard "hu ronko" style with wide sleeves, open neck, and pocket sewn to front. Yellow background, stamped with black stripes and alternating with bands of various motifs. The bottom hem, sleeve hem, and neckline, are outlined with black triangles, in contrast to the usual style of solid black bands. Made from strips of handwoven plain weave cloth, handsewn together, and dyed yellow. The warp and the weft are handspun, single ply cotton thread. A piece of machine-made cloth is sewn to the inside back of the neck. The donor, Dr. Ottenberg, notes that this shirt was made by "Surna Mannio of Bafodea Town, 1979... he is known as a 'double man' since he is skilled in a variety of crafts and occupations... For the black color he is using bumala and budonia, boiled up with swamp mud. Like most hu ronko artists he makes his own stamps." Dr. Ottenberg describes the stamp motifs as "sun, half circle, cross bars, and clock, although he [Mannio] calls the latter 'biyiloko, a Limba word for somebody or something that walks around a lot".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom, Koinadugu District, Northern Province, Sierra Leone, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Limba
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2043745
label: USNM Number
content: E432875-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt
physicalDescription: label: Width - Sleeve Hem To Sleeve Hem
content: 104 cm
label: Height - Back Of Neck To Bottom Hem
content: 76 cm
label: Width - Bottom Hem
content: 80 cm