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Object Number
998-16-50/12854B
Display Title
Wooden sleeping hammock supports
Descriptions
Object Description
Wooden hammock supports with yellow/green woven cotton straps looped around them; each support is a single piece of carved wood with flaring ends that taper to blunted points.
Inventory Description
Hammock supports, carved, cylindrical, conical tips, wrapped with woven cotton
Classification
- Hammock
Department
Ethnographic
Date
ca. 1911-1916
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Liberia
Materials
Wood, Cotton
Dimensions
Overall: 40.5 x 10.6 x 10 cm (15 15/16 x 4 3/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
998-16-50/12854B
Credit Line
Gift of Norman Hurst
Provenance
Donor
Norman Hurst
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 998-16-50/12854A | Strip woven sleeping hammock |
Raw Material
Hammock |
Liberia
| |
| 995-31-50/12568 | Hammock |
Hammock
|
Guinea
| |
| 09-3-30/75778 | Hammock |
Hammock
|
Inapari
| |
| 41-80-30/7827 | Hammock made of maguey fiber (muryi) |
Raw Material
Hammock |
Colombia
| |
| 25-60-30/F486 | Hammock |
Hammock
|
Brazil
| |
| 35-57-20/4213.1 | Rope hammock for sleeping |
Hammock
|
Chiapas
| |
| 992-27-30/11666 | Sleeping hammock, vegetable fiber |
Raw Material
Hammock |
Venezuela
| |
| 18-12-30/F220 | Child's hammock |
Hammock
|
Brazil
| |
| 998-15-50/12847 | Strip woven hammock |
Raw Material
Hammock |
Sierra Leone
Liberia | |
| 989-26-30/11610 | Baby's hammock , native name: amalajiri. made by women. |
Hammock
|
Santa Caramela
| |
| 992-27-30/11663 | Sleeping hammock, vegetable fiber |
Raw Material
Hammock |
Venezuela
| |
| 05-65-20/C3905 | Portion of hammock |
Hammock
|
Guatemala
|