Fishing Net
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Charles Erskine
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: PRAWNING NET MADE OF "WAYAKA" TWINE, WITH SIX LIGHT HIBISCUS WOOD FLOATS ON THE UPPER EDGE AND SHELL SINKERS WEIGHTING THE BOTTOM. ACCORDING TO FERGUS CLUNIE THESE ARE USED BY WOMEN. MARKS> A TAG ATTACHED READS, "TAKEN FROM CASE AT EAST END OF ANTHROPOLOGY HALL, SMITHSONIAN, MARCH 1884, FIJI." PUBLICATION: FOR SIMILAR NET SEE FERGUS CLUNIE, "YALO I VITI," FIJI MUSEUM, 1986, P. 27, 148. THIS NET HAD BEEN CATALOGUED AS T-12155, BUT WAS IDENTIFIED AS #2830 IN 1985. EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE OF HIBISCUS BAST. CAT. NO. 2830, ORIG. NO. 1908."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2830-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Net
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 165 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 41.5 cm