Waist Mat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. James Alden
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: ROUGHLY RECTANGULAR MAT, FINELY WOVEN OF VERY NARROW STRIPS OF PANDANUS, TWO OF THE EDGES ARE SCALLOPED. ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS GILBERTS. PEALE CATALOG SAYS FROM SEARLES IS., PAUMOTU GROUP. ACCORDING TO SAUL RIESENBERG, "KINGS IS. WOULD BE PUKARUKA.". A NOTE PINNED TO THE SPECIMEN READS, "BOX 2, NO. 17. EIGHT MATS WORN ROUND THE WAIST OF THE MEN. KINGS ISLAND" [THIS IS APPARENTLY A SHIPPING LABEL]. ACCORDING TO RIESENBERG, "TAIARO WOULD BE KINGS IS.", ALSO IN THE TUAMOTUS ARCHIPELAGO. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Twilled, fine pandanus, 19 wefts to the inch. Old label sewed on: 'box 2, no. 17, eight mats round the waist by the men Kings Island.' A tag, the regular printed tag, says; (Searles Is. Narrow matting worn around the waist by the men. Lt. Alden, U.S.N.) (this information given by K. P. Emory, Bishop Museum, 6/24/41). Originally cataloged as Gilbert Islands. Peale catalog says: '665-670, mats made of pandanus leaves and worn around the waist by the natives of Searles Island, Paumotu Group.' Searles would be Pukaruha. But pinned to the specimen is a note reading 'Box 2, no. 17. Eight mats worn round the waist of the men. Kings Islands'. Kings would be Taiaro, also in the Tuamotus. -- S. R. 1/15/62"
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3705-13. "MOST OF THESE MATS ARE NARROW AND WORN AROUND THE WAIST BY THE MEN."
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3712-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 93 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 59 cm