Flat Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1990's
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Adrienne L. Kaeppler
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: SQUARE SHAPED BASKETRY BAG MADE FROM PLAITED BLACK AND UNDYED CELLULOSE FIBERS.A FLAP COVERS BAG'S OPENING AND EXTENDS DOWN ENTIRE FRONT OF BAG. BASKETRY WEAVE COMPOSED OF SERIES OF SQUARES IN WHICH THERE ARE 2 TRIANGLES, ONE UNDYED AND OTHER BLACK CELLULOSE FIBER. CELLULOSE FIBER WOVEN INTO A HANDLE EXNTEDS FROM 1 SIDE OF BAG'S OPENING TO ITS OTHER SIDE. ACCORDING TO ADRIENNE KAEPPLER (CURATOR OF OCEANIC ETHNOLOGY) "FLAT BASKET WITH 'MANULUA' DESIGN. THESE BASKETS ARE USED BY TONGAN WOMEN TO CARRY SMALL THINGS SUCH AS HYMN BOOKS AND BIBLES, ETC. AND SOLD TO TOURISTS." KAEPPLER COMMENTS SHE COLLECTED THIS BASKET "BECAUSE OF THE TRADITIONAL DESIGN USED ON NON-TRADITIONAL FORM (THE OLD FORM OF BASKET THAT USED THIS DESIGN (KATO MOSIKAKA) IS NO LONGER MADE."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Tonga, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416174
label: USNM Number
content: E428801-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 47 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 27.7 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 3 cm