Climber
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Oct 1996
label: Collection Date
content: 1975 to 1976
name: label: Collector
content: Margaret Sullivan
label: Donor Name
content: Margaret Sullivan
notes: label: Notes
content: LONG CORD OF 8 "STICKS" WRAPPED IN RAFFIA, BOTH ENDS TIED TOGETHER FORMING A MISSHAPEN OVAL. ONE END IS EXPOSED & HELD IN PLACE, ONE NEXT TO THE OTHER W/ A WOVEN CROSS SEAM; FUNCTIONS AS A SEAT AND BRACE FOR THE PALM TREE CLIMBER. EXTRA RATTAN LOOP ATTACHED TO ONE HANDLE. PURCHASED AT FOREST INDUSTRIES (DID AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES). OBJECT NOT UNIQUELY MENDE; FOUND ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. MADE & USED BY MEN & BOYS. SEE MANUSCRIPT P. 62, CATALOG PP. 19, 21.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pujehun, Pujehun District, Southern Province, Sierra Leone, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mende
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 409926
label: USNM Number
content: E427433-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Climber
physicalDescription: label: Length - Folded
content: 127 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 68 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 10 cm