Basket
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: OVAL SHAPED COILED BASKET, PRESUMABLY PANDANUS FIBERS WHICH HAVE BEEN DYED BLACK. THE BASKET IS ORNAMENTED BY MEANS OF A FINELY BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD WHICH IS SLIPPED THROUGH THE BASKET COILS AT VARYING INTERVALS TO FORM A PATTERN. PUBLICATION: VIOLA, MARGOLIS, "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3598-9. #3599: AN OVAL BLACK BASKET, ORNAMENTED WITH LIGHT BROWN STRIPS OF SENNIT MADE OF FIBERS OF COCOANUT, DRAWN ACROSS THE OUTSIDE OF THE BASKET FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. LENGTH, 14 1/2", DEPTH 5"; BREADTH, 10 1/2"."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 933 and 934 as "Work baskets made and used by the chief women only of the Tonga Islands."
label: Notes
content: Discussed p. 260-261 in Kaeppler, Adrienne L. 2019. "A Kato Mosi Kaka and other Treasures from Tonga from the US Exploring Expedition." In Collecting and Provenance: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Milosch, Jane and Pearce, Nick, editors. 257–268. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Identified as a kato alu basket.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tongatapu Group, Tonga, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3599-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 38 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 13 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 25 cm