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Object Number
2004.29.11835
Display Title
Roof mat making - "sewing" the leaflets with skewers
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "Basa Tribe / (Bantu / roof-mat making - "sewing" the leaflets with / skewers = on ekalo" A / Basa / Photo's by Rev. George Schwab. 1919-22"
Department
Photographic
Date
1919-1922
Artist
George Schwab
Culture
- Bantu speaking peoples
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Dimensions
Overall: 6.985 × 10.795 cm (2 3/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
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| 2004.29.11727 | Splitting the bisoho or leaflets |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11833 | Man splitting raffia palm frond stems for lath in roof-mat making |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11834 | Man splitting raffia palm frond stems for lath in roof-mat making |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11837 | Man making palm roof mats |
Africa
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| 22-2-50/B3425 | Palm leaflets (oil palm) |
Raw Material
Floral |
Cameroon
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| 20-45-60/D1341 | Hair skewers of porcupine quill |
Ornament
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Burma
| |
| 46-77-30/6884 | Metal pins or skewers |
Pin
Raw Material |
Peru
| |
| 2010.5.35742 | Peddler selling skewers of candy coated crab apples stuck in a stand |
Manchuria
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| 74-18-10/7643 | Skewers |
Ornament
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Wyoming
South Dakota | |
| 2004.29.11832 | Mat making - weaving the mat |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11830 | Mat making - bringing in a bundle of stems of ndomboo for mats |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11836 | Binding leaves around laths to make roof mats |
Africa
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