Brocaded And Fringed Shroud
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Mar 1937
label: Collection Date
content: 1890
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Gertrude Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: Discussed in Sarah Fee & Christine Mullen Kreamer. 2002. Objects as Envoys: Cloth, Imagery, and Diplomacy in Madagascar, p 114-116, where Mary Jo Arnoldi describes this as a Betsileo "lambamena", a type of lamba used as a shroud, or in the 19th century, as ceremonial dress by people of high rank. It is "predominately red, [and] two bands of [warp] stripes (black, red, greem, and yellow) divide the cloth visually into three equal-sized sections.At each end [of the cloth] a band of decorative motifs was created with metal beads woven across the width of the cloth... The motifs [in the silver band] are abstract geometric forms." Illustrated, Figure 66 [note that the detail image on the next page, figure 67, is not a detail from this lamba, as it states in the caption, but rather a detail from E378459 / Figure 65).
label: Notes
content: Catalog card: "Large; brocaded with silver panels and fringed; cotton; four loom widths; collected in 1890." Note that this lamba is not brocaded, and it is not cotton (or not primarily cotton), but rather silk. The silver colored bands near the ends are made with beads that are threaded onto the warp and woven into the textile.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Oct 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Madagascar, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Betsileo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 143175
label: USNM Number
content: E378459-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shroud
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 220 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 186 cm