Description (Labels & Markings)
Pencil note on front of old Wellcome Collection label: 'Usumbara.'
'Pencil not on back of old Wellcome Collection label: 'Kasai, Congo. [unclear] N. L. Tang'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Field collection)
Note on catalogue card for 1952.14 A-C: 'Provenance uncertain but these are probably from' [gap] 'Kasai District'.

The writer may have intended on adding further information, but this is unclear.
Event Date 1952
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1952.14 A-C: 'Grass mats used as currency.'
Event Date 1952
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1952.14 A-C: 'These mats have been rolled up into sausage shapes, and the ?fringes on each side plaited into ropes.'
Event Date 2/3/2005
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Amendments / updates)
On the Wellcome collection label attached to this object is a pencil note that reads 'Usumbara.' This likely refers to the Usambara Mountains, a location in eastern Tanzania. The label also has a second pencil note that reads 'Kasai, Congo.' It is unclear which of these locations is the correct place of production or collection. Kasai and Usambara have therefore both been added to the Place and Production fields.
Event Date 22/11/2022
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Grass mat used as currency, consisting of a rectangular piece of woven grass rolled into a narrow cylinder, with plaited fibre rope at each end.
Event Date 22/11/2022
Author: Lizzy Peneycad