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date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jun 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Kershner
label: Collector
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FLAX (PHORMIUM TENAX) BASKET OR KIT. STRIPS USED IN THE PLAITING 4 MM WIDE. PROBABLY POSSESSED HANDLES AS IS NORMAL. AN ORIGINAL LABEL ATTACHED READ, "NO. I8 MADE OF CHATHAM IS FLAX (PHORMIUM TENAX) - MAORI NAME 'HARAKEKE', BY OLD TENANT'S MAORI WIFE", (FROM E. KERSHNER). IT IS LIKELY THAT THIS SPECIMEN IS OF TRADITIONAL MAORI WORK, RATHER THAN OF MORIORI. INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Pl. 8, i, and described p. 27 in Keyes, Ian W. 1967. New Zealand Artifacts from the United States "Transit of Venus Expedition," 1874-1875. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, 2 (2). https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810223.2.2.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chatham Island (Rēkohu, Wharekauri), Chatham Islands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003939
label: USNM Number
content: E17279-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 40.6 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 23.5 cm