Cloth Dress - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 43290 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 153.05 MORACEAE Ficus sp | Entry Book Number | 104.1901 | |
| Artefact Name | Cloth Dress | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Uganda | TDWG Region | Uganda | ||
| Parts Held | Cloth Dress | Geography Description | Uganda | ||
| Uses | Cloth DressUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Mahon J | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 31/10/1901 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Presented by J Mahon Acting Curator Botanic Gardens Entebbe, Uganda Protectorate I am sending a native bark cloth toga which I hope you may consider worthy a place in the museum. I also send a few fruits of the Ficus from the bark of which, this cloth is prepared. I had a boy hunting around yesterday but these were all the fruits he succeeded in finding. Several other spp. of Ficus at present are laden with fruit. The natives grow the bark cloth tree from big woody cuttings and in a native g, arden the well grown trees, look like clean, healthy apple trees. I have never seen the natives wearing this ornamented cloth. Indeed bark-cloth attire as regards the men is falling into desuetude and is the badge of the Mashenji or lowest labouring class, es. The women, however, are more or less clothed in it still. They affect large clean whole pieces, which clothes the body from armpits to ankles, the arms being always free. The men wrap huge folds around the trunk of the body, giving their figures frequ, ently a grotesque and invariably an awkward appearance. I hope to send you more bark cloth material soon, such as the tools used in its manufacture, raw cloth, foliage etc. Extract from letter Mr J Mahon to Director Oct 31 1901 | ||||