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 PLAITED PANDANUS WAIST MAT OR "MARO" COMPOSED OF VERY NARROW STRIPS OF PANDANUS AND FINISHED AT EITHER SIDE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. NOTE ON OLD CATALOGUE CARD READS, "SEARLES WOULD BE PUKARUKA. SAUL RIESENBERG".
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3705-13. MOST OF THESE MATS ARE NARROW AND WORN AROUND THE WAIST BY THE MEN." FROM CARD: "ORIGINALLY CATALOGED AS GILBERTS. PEALE CATALOG SAYS "MATS MADE OF PANDANUS LEAVES AND WORN AROUND THE WAIST BY THE NATIVES OF SEARLES I., PAUMOTU GROUP." SEARLES WOULD BE PUKARUKA."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pukarua 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: E3709-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 489 cm
label: Minimum Width - Object
content: 13.5 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 15 cm