Waist Cords
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: Col. Albert B. Steinberger
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PLAITED OF WHITE, SPLIT PANDANUS LEAVES AND BLACK HIBISCUS BAST OVER A CORE OF SENNET. ORIGINALLY CATALOGED AS SAMOAN; STEINBERGER'S BASE WAS IN SAMOA AND HE MAY HAVE COLLECTED THESE THERE, BUT THE CORDS ARE OF THE TYPE WHICH IS MADE IN THE MARSHALL ISL. NO. 13676 HAS A TAG SAYING "LINE ISLANDS" BUT THESE WERE UNINHABITED, EXCEPT INTERMITTENTLY BY CREWS OF GUANO SHIPS WHICH CONSISTED OF NATIVES FROM MANY ISLANDS, POSSIBLY INCLUDING MARSHALLESE. S. R. (Saul Riesenberg) 1/11/62. "
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Marshall Islands, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003313
label: USNM Number
content: E13677-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Waist Cord