Basketry Hat?
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: Conical basket or basketry hat. Point / top is missing. Warp of flat, rigid fibers, and weft of raffia-like fiber, some undyed and some dyed dark brown. Half nearest the point is made with tight weft-twining with undyed fibers, and a dark brown supplementary weft creating a striped pattern visible only on the outside. The half of the basket nearer the rim has a decorative weave with the dark and light wefts forming a vertical zig-zag pattern. This area is less firmly woven, and has more damage. Similar to E432171.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
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: E432137-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Diameter
content: 34 cm
label: Maximum Height
content: 15.5 cm