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Object Number 09-3-30/75475.2
Display Title Hammocks
Descriptions
Inventory Description Hammock, woven multicolor twisted vegetable fiber cords
Classification
  • Hammock
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Peban
  • Yeguas
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / <State> / <County> / Yaguas / Yaguas
Additional Geographic Terms Quitos, 100 miles below; Amazon, on east bank of
Dimensions Overall: 150 x 33 x 4 cm (59 1/16 x 13 x 1 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 75475

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Hammocks
09-3-30/75475.1 Hammocks
Hammock
Yaguas
Baby's hammock , native name: amalajiri. made by women.
989-26-30/11610 Baby's hammock , native name: amalajiri. made by women.
Hammock
Santa Caramela
Shredding and drying of vegetable fiber used for hammocks.
2005.3.104.14 Shredding and drying of vegetable fiber used for hammocks.
Peru
Shredding and drying of vegetable fiber used for hammocks.
2005.3.104.15 Shredding and drying of vegetable fiber used for hammocks.
Peru
Portion of hammock
05-65-20/C3905 Portion of hammock
Hammock
Guatemala
Hammock
27-43-50/B4370 Hammock
Hammock
Liberia
Hammock
995-31-50/12568 Hammock
Hammock
Guinea
Breakfast at a Carib house. Babracote for drying meat over fire at right & hammocks slung in house interior.
2005.3.73.7 Breakfast at a Carib house. Babracote for drying meat over fire at right & hammocks slung in house interior.
British Guiana
Hammock
25-60-30/F486 Hammock
Hammock
Brazil
Twine, wood and raffia hammock
60-25-50/10411 Twine, wood and raffia hammock
Hammock
Konawo
Hammock - made by knotless netting from a grass fiber called: nyung kwa
35-25-30/1126 Hammock - made by knotless netting from a grass fiber called: nyung kwa
Hammock
Peru
Small brown hammock
08-12-30/73035 Small brown hammock
Hammock
Colombia