Leather pouch
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1966
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: 2 pieces. ½: Half-circle leather pouch. Front has elaborate geometric designs stitched, stamped, and painted on. Back is painted with geometric designs and has “made in Mali” sticker. Both sides have flap to open the pouch and a large leather tassel hanging from the flap. Additional long tassels from both sides, including a wide strip with inset red leather crosshatching. Tattered cloth strap. 2 of 2: Pair of pouches, attached at the top. Both have inset red leather strips, forming a crosshatch design. Several long leather tassels hang from the sides.
label: Notes
content: According to the donor's notes, this is an "old hunter's or warrior's leather pouch...[with] a sebe (or hatumere) on the cover. Mande-style. 'Made in Mali' stamp on it (therefore not older than 1960), presumably for export." She thinks she "acquired it from a Hausa trader in Accra, Ghana, 1966." References: Frank, Barbara. 1998. Mande Potters and Leatherworkers, p 56, 62. Similar to E169023. Tassles and fringes similar to illustration in Normand, 1902.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Nov 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Accra, Ghana, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mande (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2011246
label: USNM Number
content: E431661-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Part 1 Of 2
content: 15 cm
label: Width - Part 1 Of 2
content: 14 cm
label: Length - Part 2 Of 2
content: 25 cm
label: Width - Part 2 Of 2
content: 8.5 cm