Basketry Mat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Aug 2007
label: Collection Date
content: 1966
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Adrienne L. Kaeppler
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Adrienne L. Kaeppler
notes: label: Notes
content: Large basketry mat, made of double tofua pandanus leaves. Woven in oblique plain weave. Natural color, 3 cm wide brown border stripe, about 6 cm in from the edges. Edges all trimmed with fringe made of bright, multi-colored acrylic yarn. Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator of Oceania Ethnology and the collector of this mat, said (in 2007) that the yarn edging was fashionable at the time, and is still used.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Mar 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tongatapu Island, Tongatapu Group, Tonga, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2044518
label: USNM Number
content: E432081-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Width
content: 197 cm
label: Length
content: ca. 419 cm