Purple rito hat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Feb 2017
name: label: Collector
content: Jean T. Chapman-Mason
label: Donor Name
content: Jean T. Chapman-Mason
notes: label: Notes
content: Purple & white hat made from rito fibers woven onto a polished pearlshell" upturned brim. Hat band made of a sort of helix-shaped weavings. Donor notes: "Hats are generally made on a wooden mold (either of tamanu wood (Pacific mahogany) or tou wood (Cordia)). A weaver will have a number of shapes and sizes of molds in her home. Men's hat molds have high crowns, women's are shorter."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Aug 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cook Islands Maori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2069807
label: USNM Number
content: E433847-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 36 cm
label: Diameter
content: 12 cm