Wool Rug
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Apr 2011
label: Collection Date
content: 1969
name: label: Collector
content: Walter Coleman
label: Donor Name
content: Walter Coleman
notes: label: Notes
content: Wool rug, handwoven with thick pile. Red background with black borders around all 4 sides. Black, white, and yellow motifs at corners and center. Warp is 2-ply (handspun?) natural color cotton, weft is handspun single-ply Z-twist wool. Very dense cut pile, woven on a vertical loom. Warp ends are knotted, with about 10 cm of loose fringe. Produced in1969 at the Centre de Formations Artisinale et Menagere, a Bamana women's cooperative in Segou, Mali, and purchased by the donor in the same year. Mary Jo Arnoldi, Curator of African Ethnology, says "women are not traditionally weavers in Mali, and the production of these rugs began in the 1960s as part of a development project... The designs woven into the thick pile hand-knotted rugs are based on traditional designs found on Fulani men's wool weaving, [and therefore] extends in a contemporary rug a long tradition of iconography found in weaving in this [area]".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Nov 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Segou, Mali, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bamana (Bambara)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2055746
label: USNM Number
content: E433018-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rug
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: ca. 255 cm
label: Width
content: 135 cm