Storyboard
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Jul 1999
name: label: Collector
content: Marie-Helene Sachet
label: Donor Name
content: Muriel W. Sterne
notes: label: Notes
content: RECTANGULAR PIECE OF WOOD W/ LOW RELIEF CARVED AND PAINTED IMAGERY ON SIDE, WHILE OTHER SIDE UNADORNED. BOARD'S FRONT DEPICTS A LARGE HOUSE (BAI) W/ DECORATED FACADE, TO HOUSE'S LEFT ON PLATFORM MAN CLIMBS COCONUT TREE AND WOMAN KNEELS ON PLATFORM W/ 3 COCONUTS. UPPER RIGHT CORNER BIRD FLYING, AND "BAULES" CARVED. MARIE-HELENE SACHET (COLLECTOR) DESCRIPTION: "MAN CLIMBING COCONUT, WOMAN BELOW WITH 3 COCONUTS, BAI AND SEABIRD TO RIGHT TALKING." BOARD HAS GREEN AND RED BORDER.PICTURE HAS VARIETY OF COLORS: BLACK, RED, GREEN AND YELLOW. BOARD'S BACK HAS 2 SCREWS W/ WIRE FOR HANGING. FOLLOWING CARVED ON UPPER LEFT SIDE OF BACK: "DEC 1951; AIRAI; PALAU IS." ON TOP AND BOTTOM EDGE OF BOARD IN RED 3 LINES AND "I" APEARS. MARIE-HELENE SACHET (COLLECTOR) NOTES THAT "CARVED AND PAINTED BY BAULES, DECEMBER 1951, AIRAI, PALAU ISALNDS." ACCORDING TO ADRIENNE KAEPPLER (CURATOR FOR OCEANIC ETHNOLOGY) THIS BOARD IS EARLIEST OF 3 IN THIS ACCESSION (428728 - 428730).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Airai, Babeldaob Island, Palau, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Palauan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420729
label: USNM Number
content: E428728-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Storyboard
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 62 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 35.3 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 2.5 cm