Commemorative Textile
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Sep 2010
name: label: Collector
content: Irene Petty
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of African Art
notes: label: Notes
content: Solid cream colored background, with print in primary colors of various village scenes and stylized people. Scenes include pair of women pounding grain in a large pestle, pair of hunters carrying an antelope, village with houses and people dancing around a fire, a pair of antelopes eating, etc. No text, no borders, ends cut (unhemmed). Catalog number 432593 is same print, but with red background. Dr. Mary Jo Arnoldi, Curator of African Ethnology, says this is a popular print cloth sold in Dakar, and many tourist items are made from this cloth.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Dakar, Senegal, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Senegalese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2054366
label: USNM Number
content: E432592-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Textile
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 90 cm
label: Width
content: 118 cm