Woven Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1892
name: label: Donor Name
content: Carl Steckelmann
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "This item is somewhat confused: the cloth bearing this number carried a tag labeled "Chatelain Collection," it is about 4 yards long, and is tan and brown in a cross-striped pattern. The accession papers indicate an item which should bear this number in the Steckelman Collection, described as "piece of cloth similar to / temporary number / 3, of a check pattern. It is very difficult to obtain this cloth, the fiber being colored black by being buried in a very moist black soil..." If this description applies to the piece of cloth numbered 165316, it would have to be assumed that the "black" has faded, never applied to the whole piece but only to the darker stripes, and that in measuring the cloth it was meaured double. G.D.G. The accession notes ascribe other cloth in this collection to the BaYaka, and it is a reasonable assumption that this piece is also BaYaka, if indeed this piece is correctly numbered. Removed from exhibit Hall 7, Unit 18, 1985."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yaka
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026257
label: USNM Number
content: E165316-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 183 cm