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: LONG, NARROW FINELY WOVEN PANDANUS BELT, DOUBLED TWILLED. THERE ARE 16 WEFTS TO THE INCH. EXAMINED BY K.P. EMORY, JUNE 1941. THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1989 [that exhibit dismantled in 2004].
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FROM CARD: "3705-13. MOST OF THESE MATS ARE NARROW AND WORN AROUND THE WAIST BY THE MEN." FROM CARD: "MALO OF PANDANUS LEAF, TWILLED 2. 16 WEFTS TO THE INCH. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Taiaro Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3713-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 231 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 23.5 cm