Waist Mat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: WAIST MAT COMPOSED OF NATURAL YELLOW PANDANUS PLAITED FIBERS WITH GEOMETRIC DESIGNS DONE IN RED, AND REDDISH-ORANGE AND A BLUE-BLACK. MUCH OF THE FRINGE HAS BEEN BROKEN OFF. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY K.P. EMORY, JUNE 1941. OLD EXHIBIT LABEL READS,"MATTING - WOVEN FROM FLAT, NARROW STRIPS OF GRASS; FIGURED ON ONE SIDE IN RED AND BLACK; NARROW FRINGED BORDER. DE PYESTER ISLAND..." NOTE ON OLD CATALOGUE CARD BY SAUL RIESENBERG, "DE PEYSTER IS NUKUFETAU, ELLICE IS." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PEALE CATALOG SAYS "WAIST MATS WORN BY THE NATIVES OF DE PEYSTERS IS., PAUMOTU GROUP." BUT DE PEYSTER IS NUKUFETAU, ELLICE IS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nukufetau Atoll, Tuvalu, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuvalu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3745-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 143.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 112 cm