Hat "Bamada"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Oct 1996
label: Collection Date
content: 1975 to 1976
name: label: Collector
content: Margaret Sullivan
label: Donor Name
content: Margaret Sullivan
notes: label: Notes
content: ROUNDED RED HAT HAS POINTED FLAPS TO GO OVER EARS. EACH SIDE HAS SAME DESIGN OF DIAMOND SHAPES & SPIRALS EMBROIDERED IN GREEN, YELLOW, GOLD, BLACK, & WHITE. ACCORDING TO NOTES RECORDING CONVERSATIONS W/ SEMBU FORMA (MINISTER OF CULTURE) & JOSEPH OPALA (PEACE CORP VOLUNTEER), THE NAME "BAMADA" MEANS "CROCODILE MOUTH," SHOWING MEN'S HAT W/ SUPERNATURAL POWER. DESIGN HAS POWERFUL SIGNIFICANCE & IS MADE FOR MEN OF RANK IN UNKNOWN SECRET SOCIETY. ORDER OF COLORS (YELLOW, BLACK LINES, GREEN, BLACK SQUARES, & WHITE SQUARES) IS SIGNIFICANT. SEE MANUSCRIPT P. 37.
label: Notes
content: Tewuley Marah made the hat; uses commercially woven cloth; red. See field notes.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kabala, Koinadugu District, Northern Province, Sierra Leone, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kuranko
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 409926
label: USNM Number
content: E427424-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 33 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 22.5 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 1 cm