Man's Shirt "Hu ronko"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Jun 2007
label: Collection Date
content: 1978 to 1979
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Simon Ottenberg
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Simon Ottenberg
notes: label: Notes
content: Man's shirt. Standard "hu ronko" style with wide sleeves, open neck, and pocket sewn to front. Yellow background, stamped with bands of various motifs in black. Unlike most "hu ronko" shirts, this one does not have black stripes between the bands of motifs. Along the bottom hem is a wide band of solid black, with a row of black triangles pointing up. Another row of triangles along the neckline. Made from strips of handwoven plain weave cloth, hand sewn together, and dyed yellow. The warp and the weft are handspun, single ply cotton thread. A piece of handwoven cloth is sewn to the inside back of the neck. The donor, Dr. Ottenberg, notes that this shirt was made by Hamidu Mansaray of "Kamabansi Village in the old Kamuke chiefdom of Northern Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom" in 1979. Dr. Ottenberg says the stamp motifs are "sun and circle" and the yellow dye is mahogany.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom, Koinadugu District, Northern Province, Sierra Leone, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Limba
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2043745
label: USNM Number
content: E432878-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt
physicalDescription: label: Width - Sleeve Hem To Sleeve Hem
content: 110 cm
label: Height - Back Of Neck To Bottom Hem
content: 78 cm
label: Width - Bottom Hem
content: 85 cm