Fish Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Feb 1867
label: Collection Date
content: 1852
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. U S N George A. Magruder
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. U S N George A. Magruder
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BASKET, FLAT, SEMI-CIRCULAR, OF COCONUT LEAF. 15 1/4" MAX. LENGTH; 8.3" MAX. WIDTH. HANDLE OF BRAID NOT COC0NUT FIBRE, BUT PROBABLY HAU. "KATO NI IKA" ACCORDING TO TOWNSEND, FOR THIS SORT OF BASKET. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41). ON JAN. 31, 1852, CAPT. G. A. MAGRUDER OF THE U.S. SHIP, ST. MARY [sic, name of this ship is actually the U.S.S. St. Mary's], PRESENTED TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE, "1 FISH BASKET. FEJEE ISLANDS". (J.C.E. OCT. 28, 1951)."
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: 67A00015
label: USNM Number
content: E4443-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket