FMNH 104802.nosub[1]

  • 104802 garment
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    Scanner: Aidan Hercules : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | 22-8 | Country Togo, West Africa. | Locality Mangu | People Stock | Name War coat or cloak. A sort of shirt of heavy cotton cloth, with back and breast covered with numerous rectangular objects sewed up in skins of various kinds. On the back are several small horns thus attached. In some of these are | Collection Otto Finsch. Cap. Thierry, Col. | Notes pieces of paper with Arabic writing, (amulets) in others pieces of wood, etc. | Price [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 104802 | 182 | Acc. 941
Catalog Number: 104802.nosub[1]
Description: garment
Materials: cotton, leather, animal skin; reptile, horn, paper
Cultural Attribution: Mangu
Locality: Africa, Togo, Savanes, Oti, Mango: Mango
Accession Number: [941] O. Finsch (Purchase)
Accession Year: 1905
Other Numbers: 182
Country: Togo
Province/State: Savanes
District/County: Oti
City/Town: Mango
Collector/Source: Otto Finsch, Captain Gaston Thierry
EMu IRN: 1004973
GUID: 147b852b-82be-4a34-8e7a-bf5d3520249b

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