Man's Shirt "Hu ronko"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Jun 2007
label: Collection Date
content: 1978 to 1979
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Simon Ottenberg
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Simon Ottenberg
notes: label: Notes
content: Man's shirt. Standard "hu ronko" style with wide sleeves, open neck, and pocket in front. Brown, with black warp stripes alternating with bands of a black 3/4 circle motif (horseshoe shape). Wide bands of black along the bottom hem, and narrower bands of black at the sleeve hems and neck. Made from strips of handwoven plain weave cloth, handsewn together, and dyed brown. The donor notes that although the stripes on "hu ronko" are usually dyed (painted) on, in this case, they are woven in as warp stripes with machine-made ("European") black threads. The rest of the warp and the weft are handspun, single ply cotton thread. Inside back of neck has piece of hand woven cloth sewn on. Donor notes that this shirt was "made by Pa Wosi Conteh of Bafodea Town before 1979."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom, Koinadugu District, Northern Province, Sierra Leone, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Limba
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2043745
label: USNM Number
content: E432874-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt
physicalDescription: label: Width - Sleeve Hem To Sleeve Hem
content: 116 cm
label: Height - Back Of Neck To Bottom Hem
content: 79 cm
label: Width - Bottom Hem
content: 68 cm