White Shaggy Mat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: AN IRREGULARLY SHAPED RECTANGULAR MAT WOVEN OF HIBISCUS FIBERS. THE MAT OR KILT HAS ONE SMOOTHLY WOVEN SIDE, AND THE ROUGH FIBERS ON THE OTHER, SIMILAR TO A SHAGRUG. THIS MAT HAS BEEN BLEACHED WHITE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO PATENT OFFICE LABEL "MAT FROM SAMOA NOV, 1839 REC'D JAND. 18, 1840 VIA BOSTON [SHIP]".
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 961 - 974 as ""Ie sina". Mat woven from the bark of the hybiscus, and worn round the waist by the women of the Samoan Islands (Navigators)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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: E5093-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 129 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 135 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 91 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 108 cm