Fiber sample, Sea Island cotton, Canary Islands, 1841
date: label: date made
content: 1841
notes: label: Description
content: Fiber sample, Sea Island cotton, from Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, grown in 1841. One of a group of fiber samples given by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, in 1885, to the US National Museum's economic botany collection..
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Spain: Canary Islands
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Fibers & Economic Botany
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T00664
label: catalog number
content: T664
label: accession number
content: 16188
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fiber sample, sea island cotton
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 7 in x 7 in; 6.985 cm x 17.78 cm x 17.78 cm