FISH WARS RETURN OF THE CHINOOK NIGIRI PROJECT 2020
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Pinback button with a black background with white stars and white and yellow lettering. The style of the font and background are made to look like the opening titles of Star Wars.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Borrowing its name from a form of sushi, the “Nigiri Project” is a collaborative effort among farmers and researchers to help restore salmon populations in California’s Central Valley by reintroducing the fish to the agricultural floodplains in the Yolo Bypass during the winter. (The floodplains are farmed with rice during the summer.)
label: Description (Brief)
content: Jerry Meral acquired the button in 2017, then donated it to NMAH.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Environmental Movement
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
label: See more items in
content: Environmental Buttons
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gerald H. Meral, Ph.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0150.53
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0150.53
label: accession number
content: 2019.0150
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal; plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 2 1/8 in x 1/4 in; 5.3975 cm x 5.3975 cm x .635 cm