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: LARGE, FINELY WOVEN PLAIN PANDANUS MAT. LIGHT AND DARKER COLORED PANDANUS IS EMPLOYED AND FORMS A CHECKERED PATTERN. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. CATALOGUE NUMBER 3777 HAD FOR SOME TIME HAD TWO DIFFERENT OBJECTS UNDER IT. THE ONE WITH THE ORIGINAL NUMBER 707 MATCHES THE DESCRIPTION IN THE ORIGINAL LEDGER. THE SECOND OBJECT IS A MAORI FLAX CLOAK WITH ORIGINAL NUMBER 516, THIS OBJECT HAS BEEN ASSIGNED THE CATALOGUE NUMBER 3769 WHICH HAD BEEN MISSING INVENTORY DATA.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MAT, PLAIN PANDANUS. 3'3" X 6'8". 3/16" WEFTS. SINGLE PLAITED, TUAMOTUS. (PAUMOTU) NOT A DOUBLE MAT (THIS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41). PEALE CAT. NO. 516 BEARS PROBABLY INCORRECT CAT. NO. 3777 [and is now listed under number 3769]. A TAG ATTACHED TO SPECIMEN READS "(MEAMUKA) OR FLAX SHALL FROM THE EAST BAY OF NEW ZEALAND. BOX NO. 2 NEW ZEALAND)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tuanake Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
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: E3777-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 311 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 184 cm