Fish Trap
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1980's
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Adrienne L. Kaeppler
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: CYLINDRICAL SHAPED BASKET W/ LOOSE PLAITED BASKETRY. THE FISH TRAP WIDENS AFTER ITS MOUTH AND THEN TAPERS DOWN TO SMALLER DIAMETER BEFORE WIDENING AGAIN. TRAP'S WEAVE CONSISTS OF SEVERAL THICKER PIECES OF RATTAN RUNNING BASKET'S LENGTH W/THINNER PIECES OF RATTAN WOVEN AROUND THESE PIECES. AT 4 DIFFERENT PLACES ALONG BASKET'S LENGTH THERE ARE SMALL BANDS OF RATTAN DYED DARK GREY, THE REST OF THE BASKET IS LIGHT TAN COLOR. BOTH TRAP'S RIM COVERED IN PANDANUS WEAVE. THIS OBJECWAS A GIFT TO DR. KAEPPLER IN 1980.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lae, New Guinea / Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Unknown
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416133
label: USNM Number
content: E428860-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Trap
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 55 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 18 cm