Unknown
Hammock
Unknown, 1900-1932
Scroll
Unknown
Hammock
Unknown, 1900-1932
Physical Qualities
Fiber, wood, burlap and metal, 290 x 95 cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number
1998.435
Hammock with a wooden brace at each end with two raffia medallions and one raffia handle at each end; alternating groups of tan and maroon warp strings.
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.
Culture
Unknown
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