Basket Bag
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: "RUBU," OR FINELY WOVEN, FLAT, PANDANUS LEAF BAG OR SATCHEL. THE INTERIOR IS COARSELY WOVEN OF WIDER PANDANUS STRIPS AND THE EXTERIOR IS FINELY WOVEN IN DECORATIVE GEOMETRIC PATTERNS OF BROWN, LIGHT TAN, AND NATURAL PANDANUS. A BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD IS ATTACHED TO THE SATCHEL NEAR THE OPENING, RUNNING THROUGH BOTH SIDES, AND KNOTTED WITH LENGTHS OF CORD HANGING LOOSELY. PUBLICATION:SEE FERGUS CLUNIE, "YALO I VITI," FIJI MUSEUM, 1986, P. 31, FOR A SIMILAR EXAMPLE. EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSUEM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ORIG. CAT.: "1841 TO 1881, BASKETS MADE AND USED BY THE FIJI ISLANDERS" SENNIT BRAID HANDLE. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)"
label: Notes
content: Rim of bag is plaited in double (2:2) twill for 3 cm. Most of rest of bag is triple (3:3) twill plaiting.
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: E3303-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 78 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 32 cm