Hand 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: SMALL NET MADE OF TWISTED COCONUT FIBER CORD WHICH IS TIED AT INTERVALS. THE NET IS TIED TO STICKS WHICH ARE TIED TOGETHER AT EITHER END, AND AT ONE END A SMALLER STICK IS TIED ACROSS THE TWO IN ORDER TO SPREAD OPEN THE NET. PUBLICATION: "MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO," BY KENNETH P. EMORY, 1975, P. 192, THIS DESCRIBES A DIP NET WHICH IS VERY CLOSE TO THIS SPECIMEN. THIS MAY BE SIMPLY THE FRAME AND NET WHICH WAS ATTACHED TO A LONG STICK, SEE EMORY.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Napuka Island, Disappointment Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3632-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hand Net
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 82 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 20 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: ca 40 cm