Native Satchel
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1853
name: label: Collector
content: Carrington Raymond
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE OF TWISTED FIBER, WHICH IS NETTED IN A CONTINUOUS COILK THE FILAMENT PASSING BEHIND THE STANDING PART OF EACH TURN. THE BAG IS MADE OF OUR STRIPS OF THIS WEAVING SEWED TOGETHER DIAGONALLY, COMMENCING ON ONE SIDE AT THE TOP AND TERMINATING ON THE OTHER SIDE AT THE BOTTOM. DEPTH, 18 INCHES."
label: Notes
content: This object is recorded in Smithsonian records as an accession in 1855 from donor Carrington Raymond. It is also recorded as such in the Smithsonian Annual Report for 1855. P. 49 of the Smithsonian 10th Annual Report for the year 1855 reports additions to the collections including Australian objects from Mr. Carrington Raymond of New York. Later on p. 60 in the book they mention the donation as consisting of an "Australian boomerang club and satchel". Anthropology records list the donor name as C. R. Raymond, though it is unclear what the source for the middle initial of his name is. The "satchel" was catalogued in 1866 into the Anthropology collections as # 1535; there is no record of the boomerang club. Unfortunately, no other records or correspondence have been located for this accession. In 1853 a man named Israel Ward Raymond (1811-1887), a steamship company executive from Brooklyn, NY, along with his wife and two of his children, went from San Francisco to Australia on the side-wheel steamship New Orleans, stopping first in Brisbane for almost nine days before arriving in Sydney on May 14, 1853. They made the return voyage in 1854 on the ship Golden Age, with Capt. David D. Porter. One of the children of Israel Ward Raymond was named Carrington Howard Raymond (1840 - 1885). So, speculatively, bag E1535 could have been acquired on this trip, and though Carrington Howard Raymond would only have been 15 in 1855, it is still possible that he donated bag # E1835 to the Smithsonian (or that some other relative of Israel Ward Raymond did?) See p. 40 - 41 in Howard, Joseph Platt. 1897. Abraham Howard of Marblehead, Mass. and his descendants for information on Israel Ward Raymond and his children: https://books.google.com/books?id=rTCDGUEGFVUC&lpg=PA40&dq=carrington%20r.%20raymond%20new%20york&pg=PA39#v=onepage&q=carrington%20r.%20raymond%20new%20york&f=false . See also The Moreton Bay Courier, Sat 7 May 1853, page 2, "Shipping Intelligence", https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3710114 , which talks about the arrival of the ship New Orleans in Moreton Bay on May 3rd 1853, and lists I. W. Raymond, his wife, 2 children and a servant being among the passengers (see extensive information on the voyage of the New Orleans in the first/left column of this newspaper). For a bit more on the voyage of the New Orleans see also p. 11 in Plowman, Peter. 2010. Across the Pacific: liners from Australia and New Zealand to North America: http://site.ebrary.com/id/10933671, or https://books.google.com/books?id=0CiKBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA11&dq=1853%20voyage%20of%20steamship%20new%20orleans%20to%20australia&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q=1853%20voyage%20of%20steamship%20new%20orleans%20to%20australia&f=false .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E1535-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Depth - Object
content: 46 cm