Blue & White Garment
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2005
label: Collection Date
content: Late 1850s
name: label: Collector
content: John S. Brooks
label: Donor Name
content: Ms. Candace Brown
notes: label: Notes
content: Lightweight blue cotton upper garment. Large white X on the front and back, made by sewing "pleats" in the fabric before dying with indigo, then removing the pleats to reveal lines of undyed white fabric. Garment is constructed from a long piece of commercial cotton cloth (actually 2 pieces sewn together lengthwise) with a round neck-hole cut in the center. It is not stitched up the sides, so presumably is worn hanging freely from the shoulders. The neck-hole is reinforced with a piece of fabric sewn around it, and the ends are hemmed.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Nov 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sierra Leone, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2029672
label: USNM Number
content: E432151-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt
physicalDescription: label: Width
content: 124 cm