Reel of handwoven cotton
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Nov 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1971
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: Long strip of plain white cotton fabric, rolled into a large bundle. Fabric is balanced plain weave, woven in two long strips and sewn together on one selvedge. Folded along the seam and rolled into a wheel-shaped bundle. Warp ends stick out from the center and are looped through the bundle near the end, creating a handle (?).
label: Notes
content: Donor's notes describe this as "a very finely woven, very narrow strip of imported white cotton (from China, I was told)." It was commissioned by her to be sewn into a long dhoki (un grand boubou) in combination with an embroidered bodice which is made separately, but she did not have time to sew it all together. Prussin still has the embroidered bodice framed at home. The bodice was published, is illustrated, in Prussin, Hatumere, p 92.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Apr 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Djenne, Mali, 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: 420734
label: USNM Number
content: E431609-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Measured As Rolled Bundle
content: 23 cm
label: Width - Measured As Rolled Bundle
content: 22.5 cm
label: Height - Measured As Rolled Bundle
content: 7 cm