Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 2000
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Adrienne L. Kaeppler
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: RECTANGULAR TIGHTLY PLAITED BASKET. ALONG EXTERIOR GEOMETRIC PATTERN OF GREEN, PURPLE AND PINK DYED PANDANUS IS WOVEN. BASKET'S RIM IS COVERED W/ A TIGHT WEAVE. NESTED WITHIN THIS BASKET WERE OBJECTS 428881 - 428883. ONE OF 4 BASKETS FOR BETEL AND PERSONAL ITEMS (428877 - 428884), PURCHASED FROM THE MAKER. ACCORDING TO DR. ADRIENNE KAEPPLER (CURATOR OF OCEANIC ETHNOLOGY) THIS BASKET WAS "MADE BY KERENGEL OF KAYANGEL, PALAU, APRIL 1992, SEE MY PHOTOGRAPHS ATTACHED - DURING THE PLAITING." THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE IN THE ACCESSION FILE.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Palau, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Palauan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416133
label: USNM Number
content: E428880-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 21.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 15.5 cm