Basket, Wallet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Cadwalader Ringgold
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FLAT, WALLET LIKE BASKET WITH WIDE CHECKERWORK ON INTERIOR AND NARROWER TWILL-WORK ON EXTERIOR WOVEN IN DIAGONAL PATTERNS OF UNDYED AND BLACK PANDANUS. THE OPEN PORTION OF THE BASKET IS CLOSED BY MEANS OF TWISTED AND BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD WHICH IS LACED THROUGH THE BASKET. WRITTEN ON BASKET, "EX. EX. BY C. RINGGOLD". THIS BASKET IS LISTED WITH THE OTHER TONGA NUMBERS, ALTHOUGH IT IS APPARENTLY FIJIAN. IT MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED IN TONGA. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PANDANUS, INNER ENVELOPE OF COARSE PLAIT, 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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3503-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 31.4 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 20 cm