Fish Cage Trap, Siamese "Kong-Cha-Pla"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1896
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "176033A. BASKETRY TRAP, SQUARE AT BOTTOM, CYLINDRICAL AT TOP, MADE FROM THIN NARROW SPLITS OF RATTAN AND TOUGH FERN STEMS. THE STRUCTURAL PARTS ARE BOTTOM BODY, BORDER, DOOR, BAIT BASKET. THE TECHNIC IS AS FOLLOWS: 1. BOTTOM-A NUMBER OF THIN SPLITS IN PAIRS, WOVEN IN OPENWORK CHECKER, STRENGTHENED WITH TWO SKEWERS SET IN DIAGONALLY AND BORDERED BY A ROW OF TWINED WEAVING IN TOUGH FERN STEM. THE SPLITS OF THE BOTTOM BECOME THE WARP OF THE BODY. 2. BODY.-WICKER WEAVING IN CLOSE WEFT OF RATTAN SPLITS OVER WARP SPLITS IN PAIRS, WHICH APPROACH GOING TOWARD THE TOP TO GIVE THE BASKET ITS SHAPE, WHICH IS SQUARE AT THE BOTTOM, CONOIDAL UPWARD, AND NEARLY CYLINDRICAL AT THE TOP. BETWEEN THE UPPER AND THE MIDDLE SECTION A ROW OF TWINED WEAVING IN FERN STEM. 3. BORDER-THE WARPS ARE TURNED DOWN AND BOUND BETWEEN INWALE AND OUTWALE OF STOUT HALF STEM HOOPS, HELD INPLACE BY A SINGLE ROW OF MALAY KNOT WORK. A THIN SPLIT ACTS AS TOP WALE. CONTINUED."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated in Taylor, Paul Michael. 2014. William Louis Abbott in Thailand: A Research Resource on Southern Thailand in the 1890s. Journal of the Siam Society 102:143-168. p 151.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lower, Thailand, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 031341
label: USNM Number
content: E176033-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trap