Hammock
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 May 2017
label: Collection Date
content: 1960
name: label: Collector
content: Allen Davis
label: Donor Name
content: Allen Davis
notes: label: Notes
content: Length of cloth with side "handles" and yellow pompom decorations. There cotton is woven into stripes of white and off white and brown, which are quite narrow. The embroidery is black, and there is an embroidered checkerboard in the center. The pompoms down the sides and the fringes on the side pieces are yellow, and there is green and blue cotton cloth sewn just above the fringe. The embroidererd border design is black, with some yellow, blue and red. Described by donor: "Mende hammock Made of handwoven narrow cotton strips which were then handstitch together. Some machine stitching in edging and decorative details. Mende tribe. Purchased from a Lebanese country store near Kenema or Bo in Sierra Leone in 1960 by Alan Davis."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sierra Leone, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mende
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2074982
label: USNM Number
content: E434896-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hammock
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 212 cm
label: Width
content: 129 cm