Pompon Belt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Feb 1914
name: label: Collector
content: N/A
label: Donor Name
content: Elhanan W. Keyser
notes: label: Notes
content: Listed on page 61 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the African Tribes (Textiles)".
label: Notes
content: From Card: "For identification as Yakoma, see other side. Similar to 323,667, and hence possibly Ngala. A similar belt (without pom-pom) is illustrated in H.H. Johnson, "George Grenfell nd the Congo," fig. 310, and entitled "Women's girdle of woven grass or palm bast, Upper Congo." Cleaned, see Restoration record 3-3-65." Back of Card: "An illustraion of this precise type of pompom girdle, worn by women low on the buttocks, is to be found in Louis Franck, "Belgisch Congo" (Antwerp, 1930), plate preceding p.131, The picture is captioned: "Bakotolo-vrouwen: let cp het zitkussen, dat tot hun toilet behoort." "Bakotolo" is not a tribal name appearing in any of the standard indexes of Congo Tribes. However, there is a Koto River which joins the Ubangi at about 22°E, and the mouth falls in the territory of the Yakoma, hence this is taken tentatively as the indentification of the specimen. - C.D.C. Removed from Hall 7, Unit 18, 1985."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yakoma
label: Culture
content: Boguru
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 056500
label: USNM Number
content: E282224-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 74 cm
label: Width
content: 14 cm