Womans Palanquin Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Jan 1913
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: A photo of this object is in Fee and Mullen Kreamer "Objects as Envoys: Cloth, Imagery, and Diplomacy in Madagascar", p. 161, where it is mentioned along with a general discussion of the palanquin, or "filanjana" (an alternate spelling, "filanzana," appears on the catalog card) as a metaphor for class and racial divisions in the Merina kingdom, and later in colonial Madagascar.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Madagascar, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055001
label: USNM Number
content: E276328-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Palanquin Model
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 46.5 cm
label: Width
content: 3 cm
label: Height
content: 6.5 cm