Palm Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Nov 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TUFTED CLOTH, VARIOUS GEOMETRIC DESIGNS IN BLACK AND PINK. A-6 IN. W, 47 IN. L, TWO PIECES, NATURAL COLOR. THE DESIGN, CALLED "MBOLO" REPRESENTS WEAVING, AND IS A COMMON MOTIF OF KUBA PILE CLOTH. CF. M. TROWELL, "AFRICAN DESIGN", P1. XXI-8 AND P1. XX-1, 2, 6. REMOVED FROM HALL 7, UNIT 21, 1987." "Removed from Hall 7, Unit 21, 1987."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kasai River (upper), Democratic Republic of the Congo (not certain) / Angola (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kuba
label: Culture
content: (Ba Kuba)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035839
label: USNM Number
content: E204413-6
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Width - A
content: 15 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 119 cm