Mat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: LARGE FLOOR MAT, POSSIBLY CONSTRUCTED OF FLAX, (PHORMIUM TENAX), BUT NOT EXAMINED CLOSELY SINCE IT [was] ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN NMNH PACIFIC CULTURES EXHIBIT HALL 8, CASE 48, FROM 1962 - 1997.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THERE WAS A TAG PINNED ON THIS, MARKED "BOX NO. 2, NEW ZEALAND,"."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 536 as "Floor mat from New Zealand." D.R. Simmons, Curator, Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, 1973, indicates Maori name for this would be whariki.
label: Notes
content: Plant fiber; woven into a mat with finished edges.
label: Notes
content: Stored in Pod 4 oversize whole unit. Advance arrangements are needed for access.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) / Bay of Islands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3843-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 131.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 72 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 131.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 72 cm