Sample book of khanga cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Aug 2018
name: label: Donor Name
content: Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
notes: label: Notes
content: Sample book of khangas (industrial roller print textile) with lesso designs. Consists of samples of 7 designs, stapled together at the top and attached to a hanger. The textiles in this book were designed and manufactured by Kaderdina Hajee Essak, Ltd., a textile company in Mombasa, Kenya. Two members of the Kaderdina family, Abdulhamid Muneeb Kaderdina and Mohamed Hussein Abdulkader Kaderdina, were participants in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival Kenya Program in 2014, and they gave this textile to the Smithsonian.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Aug 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mombasa, Kenya, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kenyan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2082609
label: USNM Number
content: E436155-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 110 cm
label: Width
content: 31 cm