1936.16.39

Collection type

Object

Description

Plaited palm-leaf carrying-sling.

Geographical reference

Somalia

Africa > Eastern Africa > Somalia

Yoontoy

Person

Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton

PRM source Diana Powell-Cotton

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1935

Date collected

1934 - 1935

Acquisition information

Donated: 1936

Materials and processes

Material Palm Leaf Plant, Process Plaited

Dimensions

Diameter: max 210 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1936.16.39 Other numbers: 1046

Research and responses

Related Documents File - Note by donor: 'NAMES OF SOME TRIBES COMPRISING THE WAGOSHA OR MAHAWAI also called OJI on the river GIUBA. [insert] From personal observation - details obtained directly in Swahili [end insert]MAHAWAI Is the name usually used by the people themselves. WAGOSHA is also used by them and by the Arabs and Somali. Gosha was I think the name of the tract of country. Oji is used for them too. I only heard this name given them by the Somali. The liberated slaves of the Somali, these people came for the most part from further South, from tanganika and Kenya, and the Zanzibar slave market. Some were settled on the Giuba by the British Government, many others moved there when liberated. They are now living on both banks of the river Giuba, South of Gelib, but most of the villages are on the right bank, (facing the mouth of the river). N.B. Wightwick Heywood in "Mysterious Lorian Swamp" says many of them came from the Congo and West Africa, I have never heard this corroborated or seen any proof of it. Some Tribes settled in Gosha country on Giuba.: Miau. Magnasa. M'Lima (I never met these). M'Jindu. Makùa. M'Werra. M'Nindi. Magnamesi. Mukomanga. Magnika. (sp?) For some years utnil Scek Murian, (date?) the Miau, like the Mashan Gubi did not practice cliterodectomy, and therefore did not intermarry with the Somali. (see notes Mashan Guli people) Though Miau and Mashan Guli intermarried.' [MOB 5/12/2001]

Search terms: Transport and Travel, Carrying Device, Sling