Leather sandal bands (6)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1980
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: 6 strips of leather and 5 buttons with inset of woven grass. The grass is white/undyed, and the leather is painted or dyed. 4 of the strips and all of the buttons are red, 1 strip is green, and one strip is brown/unpainted. Each piece has a different pattern (or two patterns) – variations on diamonds, zigzags, and diagonal stripes. The buttons are half-spheres with the woven pattern on the round side and a strip of leather coming out of the flat side. The buttons are threaded together on a thin strip of bark.
label: Notes
content: The donor commissioned these from a Fulani (Peul) leatherworker outside Labe, Guinea in 1980.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Labe, Futa Djallon, Guinea, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fulani
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2011246
label: USNM Number
content: E431664-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sandal
physicalDescription: label: Length - 1 Of 6
content: 24 cm
label: Length - 2 Of 6
content: 36.5 cm
label: Length - 3 Of 6
content: 39 cm
label: Length - 4 Of 6
content: 23.5 cm
label: Length - 5 Of 6
content: 37 cm
label: Length - 6 Of 6
content: 12.5 cm
label: Width - Each
content: 3.5 cm