Broom

Museum number:
5-16828
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
19 (previous number (donor's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4729
Description:
grass fiber hand broom. long grass strands sewn to form a row then coiled into a broom which is bound 3cm from the top using twine in 3 bands then sewn through from 4 sides to stabilize. finished with a grass loop at top.
Donor:
Dorothy Shack
Collection place:
Shewa province (historical region), Ethiopia
Verbatim coll. place:
East Africa, Ethiopia, Shoa Province, Gurage
Culture or time period:
Gurage
Collector:
Dorothy Shack and William A. Shack
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Brooms (maintenance tools)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
May 22, 2002
Context of use:
household
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 77.5 centimeters and width 8.8 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Broom, accession number 5-16828, described as grass fiber hand broom. long grass strands sewn to form a row then coiled into a broom which is bound 3cm from the top using twine in 3 bands then sewn through from 4 sides to stabilize. finished with a grass loop at top.

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