Man's Shirt "Akanjobe"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Oct 1895
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TAILORED GARMENT WITH 3/4 SLEEVES, COLLAR, POCKET, AND THROAT COVERING. MADE FROM STRIPED, HAND-WOVEN FIBER CLOTH. STRIPES NATURAL BLUE, BROWN, BLACK, AND YELLOW. FIBER TENTATIVELY IDENTIFIED AS PALM BY TEXTILE MUSEUM, APRIL 4, 1966."
label: Notes
content: A photo and brief description of this shirt is in Fee and Mullen Kreamer 2002, "Objects as Envoys: Cloth, Imagery, and Diplomacy in Madagascar", p 41-42. The Malagasy term is spelled "akanjobe" (not "akaniobe" as on the catalog card), and it is described as a "tailored durable raffia smock" for men that "served well in the mud, rain, and standing water of the rain forest homeland" of Eastern Madagascar,
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jun 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Madagascar, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029967
label: USNM Number
content: E175419-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 158 cm
label: Height
content: 95 cm