Basket With Lid
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: "RUBUGUGU," OR FINELY WOVEN, RECTANGULAR PANDANUS LEAF BASKET. THE INTERIOR IS COARSELY WOVEN OF WIDER GAUGE PANDANUS STRIPS AND THE EXTERIOR WOVEN OF NARROWER STRIPS IN DECORATIVE GEOMETRIC PATTERNS IN DARKER TAN AND NATURAL PANDANUS. THE OPENING AT THE TOP WAS COVERED WITH A RECTANGULAR PIECE WHICH HAS BROKEN OFF THE BASKET. THERE ARE TWO CARRYING HANDLES MADE OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. PUBLICATION: SEE FERGUS CLUNIE, "YALO I VITI," FIJI MUSEUM, 1986, P. 29 FOR A SIMILAR, ALTHOUGH MUCH SMALLER EXAMPLE. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. THIS PEALE NUMBER HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY ASSIGNED TO THIS CATALOGUE NUMBER FOR PURPOSES OF IDENTIFICATION.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E4409-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 55.9 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 18 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 22.5 cm