White Shaggy 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: AN IRREGULARLY SHAPED RECTANGULAR MAT WOVEN OF HIBISCUS FIBERS. THE MAT OR KILT HAS ONE SMOOTHLY WOVEN SIDE, AND THE ROUGH FIBERS ON THE OTHER, SIMILAR TO A SHAG RUG. THIS MAT HAS BEEN BLEACHED WHITE. THIS PEALE NUMBER HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY ASSIGNED TO THIS CATALOGUE NUMBER FOR PURPOSES OF IDENTIFICATION. THIS SHAGGY MAT WAS MOST LIKELY ON EXHIBIT PREVIOUSLY. SEVERAL LARGE PINS WITH HOOKS WERE FOUND EMBEDDED IN THE MAT AT ONE END, PRESUMABLY FOR HANGING.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 961 - 974 as ""Ie sina". Mat woven from the bark of the hybiscus, and worn round the waist by the women of the Samoan Islands (Navigators)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5092-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 155 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 182 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 112 cm