Armor, Cocoanut Fibre
name: label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "ARMOR.---COCOANUT FIBER. PAIR OF THICK, STRONG TROUSERS OF TWISTED AND PLAITED FIBER, SUPPORTED BY STRAPS OVER SHOULDERS. FLAPS OF SAME MATERIAL, BUT MORE CLOSELY WOVEN AND OF FINER TEXTURE, PROTECT THE ABDOMEN AND LOINS. SAID TO HAVE BEEN USED BY THE NATIVES OF MARSHALL AND CAROLINA GROUPS AND OTHER ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN BEFORE THE ADVENT OF EUROPEANS. GILBERT IS. LENGTH, 40 INS. WAIST, 40 INS. J. T. BROWN. FAIR HAVEN, MASSACHUSETTS, 1882. 56,170. GIFT OF BENJAMIN F. DREW."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kiribati Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E56170-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Armor
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 102 cm
label: Unknown - Waist
content: 102 cm