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24 · TREASURE · early 20th century

Hunter’s tunic

Mandé hunter’s tunic

The garment combines textiles, leather and elements believed to offer protection, associated with the hunter’s occupation.

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Editorial visualisation · Contextual correspondence

Declared editorial visualisation, based on the cartography and sources of the fact sheet; it is not an exact historical frontier.

Visual proposal for Mandé hunter’s tunic, Mali or Côte d’Ivoire according to the museum record
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Editorial visualisation · Contextual correspondence

Declared editorial visualisation, based on the cartography and sources of the fact sheet; it is not an exact historical frontier.

History and context

A garment made of textile, leather and packets/elements associated with protection and the hunter’s occupation.

Its history can open a discussion about ethics, specialisation and change, rather than illustrate medieval clothing. Limitation: its contents and attributed powers may be subject to restrictions; a catalogue entry does not grant cultural permission to reveal them.

Evidence and interpretation

VIVA+CUR. A garment made of textile, leather and packets/elements associated with protection and the hunter’s occupation. What this does not establish: its contents and attributed powers may be subject to restrictions; a catalogue entry does not grant cultural permission to reveal them.

Catalogue facts

Narrative date
early 20th century
Location
Mali or Côte d’Ivoire according to the museum record
Material
culturally sensitive clothing in a museum collection
Context
New York, accession 2000.160.57a,b. Custody: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Curatorial reading
The documented fact and its interpretation appear separately in the evidence block.
Dossier axis
daily-life
Research record
MANDE · EVI-10
Documentary coverage
2 museum, heritage, primary corpus or research sources for this stop.

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Clothing3 dated objects

3 / 3In the centre: Hunter’s tunic

Also connected, without a comparable date (2)

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A closer look

About 1 min to read · 1 section. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: .

From a worn garment to a collection record

The Metropolitan records this tunic with a height of 73.7 centimetres and a width of 71.1: dimensions that return a bodily scale to the image. It arrived at the museum as a donation from John B. Elliott, through The Mercer Trust, in 2000. That date belongs to its collection history, while its manufacture dates to the early twentieth century. Separating these chronologies allows following a concrete displacement: from a garment conceived to be worn on the body to an object conserved and catalogued.

Where it is held

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Item or group in the record · Documented collection

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