Coconut shell handbag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Feb 2017
name: label: Collector
content: Jean T. Chapman-Mason
label: Donor Name
content: Jean T. Chapman-Mason
notes: label: Notes
content: Dark brown, split, shellacked coconut shell. Rim and handle made with white palm fiber. Cowrie shells sewn to the handle on othe top. Donot notes: "Made in 1967/68 by Mrs. Nga Pepe-John, a Rakahangan craftswoman who lived in Aorangi on Rarotonga for awhile, then moved to Wellington, New Zealand, where she died in her 60s."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 May 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Rakahanga / Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2069807
label: USNM Number
content: E433866-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Purse
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 47 cm
label: Width
content: 18 cm