Trap
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1987
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Melvyn C. Goldstein
label: Collector
content: Dr. Cynthia Beall
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Melvyn C. Goldstein
notes: label: Notes
content: TRAP. CIRCULAR FORM MADE FROM VEGETAL FIBERS (GRASSES?) WOUND WITH COARSE, STRONG HANDSPUN WOOL YARN. YARN IS NATURAL COLORS-DARK BROWN, LIGHT BROWN, AND GRAY, AND SOME DYED RED. SEVERAL FLAT WOODEN STICKS WITH CARVED POINTED ENDS POINT ED ENDS POINT INWARD IN THE CIRCLE. THICK ROPE (CARD WOVEN?) MADE OF THE SAME WOOL YARN TIED TO THE TRAP. ROPE HAS WOVEN-IN LOOPS AT BOTH END. SMALL SKEIN OF MATCHING DARK BROWN WOOL YARN ACCOMPANIES THIS OBJECT, THOUGH ITS PURPOSE IS UNCERTAIN.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Chang Tang (Changthang) Region, Tibet, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tibetan, Phala
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378794
label: USNM Number
content: E430510-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trap
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object, Total
content: 61 cm
label: Maximum Diameter - Object
content: 19 cm