Brocaded & Fringed Shroud
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Mar 1937
label: Collection Date
content: 1890
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Gertrude Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: Discussed in Sarah Fee & Christine Mullen Kreamer. 2002. Objects as Envoys: Cloth, Imagery, and Diplomacy in Madagascar, p 114-116, where Mary Jo Arnoldi describes this as a Betsileo "lambamena", a type of lamba used as a shroud, or in the 19th century, as ceremonial dress by people of high rank. It is "constructed of two panels of equal size...The design... is carried by a central solid red area, which is flanked on either side by two identical striped bands (black green, red, and yellow)... At the end [of the cloth] a band of decorative motifs was created with metal beads woven across the width of the cloth... Most of the motifs are abstract geometric forms, but at one end of the cloth, the weaver created a more representational motif consisting of two human figures flanking a large cross." Illustrated figure 65, Detail photo, figure 67 (where it is misidentified as a detail for the item in Figure 66 / E378459).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Oct 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Madagascar, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Betsileo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 143175
label: USNM Number
content: E378458-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shroud
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 220 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 186 cm