Wooden cloth beater
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Nov 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1980
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: Club shaped, with a handle and slightly pointed at the end. Smooth. Heavy.
label: Notes
content: Donor's notes say that this is a beater used to smooth out and polish tie-dye indigo cloth. She obtained it in Yambering, Guinea in 1980. Yambering is a major Fulani (Peul) /Sarakolle center for the production of tie-dye cloth. References: Eila Kivekas. Arkila Kerka.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yambering, Guinea, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fulani (?)
label: Culture
content: Soninke (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420734
label: USNM Number
content: E431635-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Beater
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 38 cm
label: Width
content: 7.5 cm
label: Height
content: 7.5 cm