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. Brown background, stamped with black stripes, alternating with bands of various motifs. Wide band of black along the bottom hem, and narrower bands of black at the sleeve hems and neck. Made from strips of handwoven plain weave cloth, machine sewn together, and dyed brown. 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 and along inside of sleeve hems. The donor, Dr. Ottenberg, notes that this shirt was made by Momodu Conteh of Bafodea Town, in 1978 or earlier. [He is] "one of the senior hu ronko artists in Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom... (began around 1966)." Dr. Ottenberg describes the stamp motifs as "circle, linked half-circles, star, spider, cross."
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: E432876-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt
physicalDescription: label: Width - Sleeve Hem To Sleeve Hem
content: 114 cm
label: Height - Back Of Neck To Bottom Hem
content: 84 cm
label: Width - Bottom Hem
content: 80 cm