Warp Winding Bench And Loom
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Apr 1900
label: Collection Date
content: 1899 to 1900
name: label: Collector
content: Charles H. Townsend
label: Collector
content: H. F. Moore
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Commission of Fish & Fisheries
label: Expedition
content: Albatross Expedition / U.S. Fish Commission
label: Vessel
content: U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross"
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Same in form as #379, Made of wood. Legs carved and painted, maroon, blue and white. Tops of legs notched into which fits a triangular shaped cross piece apex downward. Cross piece carved and painted maroon, blue, and white. Belt making appliances attached to top." June 8, 1962, This bench has been placed on exhibit in Hall 8, Case 41 [taken down in 2005]. The winding pegs have been glued in position and two more pegs from Cat. 383413 have been added. Also 3 wrapped bobbins with thread and a shell knife have been added from Cat. 206253. The several lengths of cane which serve to keep the pegs vertical have been placed in position and some of them have had to be cut in order to fit properly, The original banana fiber warp wrapped around the pegs was too brittle to use and has been placed in the storage collections; commercial cotton thread has been substituted for it and wound around the pegs. 9 sticks composing the measuring grid were also removed and placed in the collections and new sticks made and substituted."
label: Notes
content: Exhibit Hall 8, Case 41 was taken down in 2005, and the artifacts were returned to storage. After consultation with the curator, Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler, it has been decided to keep the two pegs E383413 stored with/as part of E206256.
label: Notes
content: In 2008, 6 pieces were found being tracked with this catalog number. The warp-winding bench, a loom with textile attached, a shuttle, a bundle of thread, a peg, and a bundle of 9 small sticks. It is not clear whether all of these pieces were originally part of this number. The bench is clearly part of this number (though the 2 attached pegs are part of E383413, as noted previously). The other parts are not described on the card, other than the vague "belt making appliances attached to top" so it is not clear how many pieces there are supposed to be. The loom is marked with catalog number 206292, but this an incorrect number. No documentation can be found showing how this loom was re-identified as part of 206292 . All of the other pieces are not marked with a number, but have tags with number 206256. All pieces will keep this number until/unless better evidence can be found.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Aug 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Kosrae Island, Kosrae State, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Micronesian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 036365
label: USNM Number
content: E206256-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Loom