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.