Vai
Hammock
Vai, 1900-1932
Scroll
Vai
Hammock
Vai, 1900-1932
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 222 L x 110 W cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Sylvia H. and William M. Scaife, Jr., Fredericksburg, Virginia, from the Collection of Conrad and Pauline Bussell
Object Number
1999.485
Three small panels attached on each side, each panel with three pompoms; central square design on hammock flanked by four series of stripes.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1999; collected in Liberia between 1923-1929 by the parents of Bruce Bussell: Conrad Turner Bussell and Pauline Bussell. Mr. Bussell was sent by the U.S. Government under President Calvin Coolidge to survey the boundaries of Liberia. He was, instead, made Supervisor of Customs by President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia, and later made Financial Advisor to President King. Mrs. Bussell arrived in 1926. Bruce Bussell gave this hammock to Mr. Scaife.
