Fishing Net
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Cadwalader Ringgold
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: Prawning nets made of "wayaka" twine, one of the nets (E2834-0) has light hibiscus wood floats on the upper edge and shell sinkers weighting the bottom and two 67 cm. long sticks with bark at either end. The other net (E2834-1) has 5 wooden floats at the top, and no sinkers. According to Fergus Clunie these are used by women. Marks: E2834-1 only has original Peale tag, tag attached to the middle of net "C. Ringgold, Ex Ex Porpoise [brig USS Porpoise was one of the ships used on the U.S. Exploring Expedition], 2 seines". Publication: see Fergus Clunie, "Yalo I Viti," Fiji Museum, 1986, p. 27, 148. Examined by Kenneth P. Emory, Bishop Museum, June 1941. He noted at that time the existence of two nets with the same catalogue number.
label: Notes
content: From card [2833-38]: "Twine made of fibre of hibiscus. Shell sinkers. Fishing net. Fiji. 23" x 6'6" 3/4" mesh. Shell sinkers along bottom, wooden floats along top. (this information given by K. P. Emory, Bishop Museum, 6/24/41). Cat. 2834 = orig. 1902."
label: Notes
content: From card [2834]: "broken shell sinkers on lower end. Two plain sticks, bark on the. Orig. cat. says: "1901-1913 fishing nets, made of the bark of hybiscus, by the Fijis." note: there is another net of the same no. And orig. No., 10' long, 16" wide, wooden floats along top, no sinkers on bottom, and a mesh (1/4"), heavier cord. (This information given by K.P. Emory, Bishop Museum, 6/24/41)"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Apr 2017
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: E2834-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Net
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 144.3 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 64.5 cm