Basket Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: "RUBU," OR FINELY WOVEN, FLAT, PANDANUS LEAF BAG OR SATCHEL. THE INTERIOR IS COARSELY WOVEN OF WIDER GAUGE PANDANUS STRIPS AND THE EXTERIOR IS VERY FINELY WOVEN IN DECORATIVE STAR-LIKE OR WINDMILL PATTERN BLACK AND NATURAL PANDANUS. THE OPENING IS TIED WITH A CORD OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER. MARKS> AN OLD TAG READS, "3240 FEJEE WALLET OR BASKET 1879". PUBLICATION: SEE FERGUS CLUNIE, "YALO I VITI," FIJI MUSEUM, 1986, P. 31, FOR A SIMILAR EXAMPLE. EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SENNIT HANDLE. THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K.P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3240-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 37.9 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 19.5 cm