Pendant
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Aug 1900
name: label: Collector
content: Richard L. Garner
label: Donor Name
content: Richard L. Garner
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Pendants constituting state dress of chief. Made from inner bark of palm, dyed red. Top closely gathered and inserted in a split made in a short section of rattan, to which it is also secured by a cord. Widened at bottom by gores of light colored material sewed in by cord made from palm fibre. Garner: "These pendants constitute the state dress of one of the greatest chiefs of the Pfan state. The fabric is the inner bark of a variety of the palm. The cap belongs to the same suit. It is made from the skin of a monkey, and has no seam in it. When I first got it, it was covered with a thick suit of reddish gray or tawney-gray hair in quite good condition. There were also 8 or 10 fish-eagle feathers in it, but the moths have eaten them. The cowrries doubtless came from the eastern coast of Africa, as they are almost unknown in this latitude on the west coast. The beads may have come from either side of Africa. I don't know what the pendants are stained with and I have been unable to find any trader or missionary who knows." See cat. nos. 206113 and 206114. These pendants and the cap go together."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Gabon River, Gabon, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fang
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 036893
label: USNM Number
content: E206112-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pendant
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: ca. 71 cm