6 leather sandal bands and 5 buttons
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 with inset of woven grass. The grass is white/undyed, and the leather is painted or dyed. 3 are red, 2 are green, and one is brown/unpainted. Each strip has a different pattern (or two patterns) – variations on diamonds, zigzags, and diagonal stripes.
label: Notes
content: The donor calls the pattern on the buttons "hatumere designs". She commissioned these from a Fulani (Peul) leatherworker outside Labe, Guinea in 1980.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 11
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: E431665-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sandal
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Buttons
content: 3.5 cm
label: Height - Buttons (Without Strap)
content: 2 cm
label: Length - Smallest Band
content: 24.5 cm
label: Width - Smallest Band
content: 3.7 cm
label: Length - Largest Band
content: 40 cm
label: Width - Largest Band
content: 5.5 cm