Basketry Bag for carrying personal items
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Jun 2007
label: Collection Date
content: 18 Nov 1990 to 27 Nov 1990
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Adrienne L. Kaeppler
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Adrienne L. Kaeppler
notes: label: Notes
content: Plaited rectangular basketry bag with double handle. Made of kiekie plant (Freycinetia banksii). Fiber colors: deep pink, green, and natural. According to Adrienne Kaeppler, curator of Oceania Ethnology, the design is called "Waahi Rua" which means "division of two patterns" and the basket is called "Kete Whakairo", which means "designed basket". The basket was a gift to Dr. Kaeppler from the maker, Eva Anderson, who made it in November 1990 while both were attending the Taonga Maori Conference at the National Museum of New Zealand in Wellington, New Zealand. Illustrated in Oxford History of Art. "The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia" by Adrienne L. Kaeppler, 2008. Page 46.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wellington, North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui), New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2043160
label: USNM Number
content: E431929-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Length - Object
content: 37 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 24 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 4 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 37 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 24 cm