Fishing Net
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: LONG FISHING NET MADE OF FINE, TWISTED, VEGETABLE FIBER WITH TWO LINES OF THICKLY COILED COCONUT FIBER ROPE RUNNING DOWN EITHER SIDE. TO ONE SIDE ARE ATTACHED 8 ROUGH STONE SINKERS OF VARIOUS TYPES OF STONE, AND TO THE OTHER ROUGHLY SHAPED WOODEN FLOATS. THE MESH IS APPROXIMATELY 2 CM. WIDE. HAD A WHITE CANVAS TAG WITH "NUMBER 3" WRITTEN ON IT.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3412-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Net
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 470 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 174 cm