Fishing Net
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: PRAWNING NET MADE OF "WAYAKA" TWINE, WITH LIGHT HIBISCUS WOOD FLOATS ON THE UPPER EDGE AND SHELL SINKERS WEIGHTING THE BOTTOM. ACCORDING TO FERGUS CLUNIE THESE ARE USED BY WOMEN. MARKS> HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG ON ONE OF THE WOODEN FLOATS, ALSO WHITE TAG READS, "TAKEN FROM CASE AT EAST END OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL HALL, SMITHSONIAN, MARCH 1884." PUBLICATION: FERGUS CLUNIE, "YALO I VITI," FIJI MUSEUM, 1986, P. 27, 148. THIS NET WAS IDENTIFIED BY ITS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, IT HAD BEEN CATALOGUED AS T-12156.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TWINE MADE OF FIBRE OF HIBISCUS. SHELL SINKERS. FISHING NET. FIJI. 23" X 6'6" 3/4" MESH. SHELL SINKERS ALONG BOTTOM, WOODEN FLOOATS ALONG TOP. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41). CAT. 2835 = ORIG. 1905."
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2835-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Net
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 588 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 122 cm