Unknown
Hammock
Unknown, 1900-1932
Scroll
Unknown
Hammock
Unknown, 1900-1932
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 252 x 63 cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number
1998.434
Hammock in beige with one row of orange and black blocks at each end and a row of opposing triangles in orange and black in the center. Designs of orange and black are supplementary weft.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1923-1929 by the parents of donor (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.
Inscribed: Old masking tape label with number written: L-75-16-11.
Culture
Unknown
2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00
