Basket, "Kete"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: "KETE WHAKAIRO," OR BASKET WITH TEN HANDLES, FIVE ON EACH SIDE. THE BASKET HAS A DIAGONAL WEAVE EMPLOYING NATURAL COLOR AND DYED BLACK FLAX WHICH FORMS A ZIGZAG PATTERN. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89. PUBLICATION: "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," BY VIOLA & MARGOLIS, S.I. PRESS, 1985, ILLUSTRATED P. 134.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "[From Peale catalogue:]"KETE" OR BASKET FROM EAST BAY NEW ZEALAND". D. R. SIMMONS: A BASKET WITH DIAGONAL WEAVE USING BLACK DYED FLAX IN ONE DIRECTION, NATURAL COLOR FLAX STRIPS IN THE OTHER TO FORM A ZIGZAG PATTERN. HANDLES ARE LOOPED INTO THE RIM EVERY TEN CENTIMETERS. NOV. 1974. INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated in Oxford History of Art. "The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia" by Adrienne L. Kaeppler, 2008. Page 46.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) / Bay of Islands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
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: E3779-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 65 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 38 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 65 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 38 cm