Man's Shirt "Akanjobe"
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Object Details
- Collector
- Dr. William L. Abbott
- Donor Name
- Dr. William L. Abbott
- FROM CARD: "TAILORED GARMENT WITH 3/4 SLEEVES, COLLAR, POCKET, AND THROAT COVERING. MADE FROM STRIPED, HAND-WOVEN FIBER CLOTH. STRIPES NATURAL BLUE, BROWN, BLACK, AND YELLOW. FIBER TENTATIVELY IDENTIFIED AS PALM BY TEXTILE MUSEUM, APRIL 4, 1966."
- A photo and brief description of this shirt is in Fee and Mullen Kreamer 2002, "Objects as Envoys: Cloth, Imagery, and Diplomacy in Madagascar", p 41-42. The Malagasy term is spelled "akanjobe" (not "akaniobe" as on the catalog card), and it is described as a "tailored durable raffia smock" for men that "served well in the mud, rain, and standing water of the rain forest homeland" of Eastern Madagascar,
- Record Last Modified
- 30 Jun 2017
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Not Given
- Accession Date
- 28 Oct 1895
- Accession Number
- 029967
- USNM Number
- E175419-0
- Object Type
- Shirt
- Length
- 158 cm
- Height
- 95 cm
- Place
- Madagascar, Africa
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8350790
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3bc700f56-3b3d-4871-9fa2-ae2f6db6052b
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