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date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Dec 1990
label: Collection Date
content: 1977
name: label: Collector
content: Venice Lamb
label: Donor Name
content: Venice Lamb
notes: label: Notes
content: USED AS A HANGING AROUND THE MARRIAGE BOWER IN NUPTIAL RITES OF THE WOGO PEOPLES. WOOLEN BLANKET OF THE KEREKA OR TYARKA TYPE. THIS LARGE RUG IS SAID TO BE WOVEN BY THE SONGHAI, POSSIBLY PEUL (FULANI), FROM TILLABERR... REGION OF NIGER. GOING AROUND BACK OF MARRIAGE BOWER...ONE DRAPED ALONG BACK AND ONE DRAPED ON PLATFORM ON WHICH COUPLE SITS.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Niamey, Niger, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Wogo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 361597
label: USNM Number
content: EJ10310-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 788 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 345 cm