Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 May 2013
label: Collection Date
content: 1972
name: label: Collector
content: Richard Feinberg
label: Donor Name
content: Richard Feinberg
notes: label: Notes
content: Basket woven from coconut frond, with the rib of the frond forming the rim of the basket, and the leaves woven in 2/1 twill to make the sides. Simple pouch shape, with small loops at the bottom corners. Natural color.
label: Notes
content: Small coconut leaf basket used for carrying and storing food or to tie around waist of 'swim-fisherman' to hold bait and fish while treading water over inshore reef (taukurakura - word for swim fishing). While they fish, the men catch a fish, pull it up and bite it through the head and throw in the basket and continue. Feinberg believes that this basket is made by both men and women but is not entirely certain. (Per curator Joshua Bell; notes from speaking to Feinberg, Aug 16, 2012.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anuta Island, Solomon Islands, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Anutan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2059846
label: USNM Number
content: E433254-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 40 cm
label: Width
content: 40.6 cm