Kroo's Provision Box
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Mar 1867
name: label: Collector
content: Prof John Cassin
label: Donor Name
content: Prof John Cassin
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER MADE OF BARK, SEWED WITH FIBER. BASKETRY ENDS MADE WITH WOOD CORE. ON CARD ACCOMPANYING ITEM WAS FOLLOWING NOTATION: THE KROOS ARE PILOTS AND SEAMEN ON THE WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA AND ARE INDISPENSABLE TO VESSELS ENTERING THE RIVERS OF THAT COAST. THE PROVISION CONSISTS OF POUNDED CORN, SO CALLED, MORE PROPERLY A LARGE SPECIES OF MILLET WHICH IS EATEN MIXED WITH WATER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Liberia, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kru
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 67A00017
label: USNM Number
content: E4803-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box