Basket
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: SMALL BASKET IN THE SHAPE OF A CUBE, WITH A SQUARE OPENING AT THE TOP AND TWO BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD ATTACHED AT THE TOP. THE FIBER CORDS END IN LOOPS. THE BASKET IS MADE FROM PANDANUS, AND WOVEN IN A RATHER COARSE CHECKERBOARD FASHION. THERE IS AN OLD PRINTED EXPLORING EXPEDITION LABEL ATTACHED. THE BASKET IS IN EXTREMELY BRITTLE AND DIRTY, AND IS MUCH IN NEED OF CONSERVATION, JANE WALSH, 1989. EXAMINED & SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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: E3396-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 17 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 15 cm