Rope
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Mar 1899
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Zoological Park
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM LOGBOOK: ROPE, VIRIGIN ISLANDS, FOR PROF. MASON.
label: Notes
content: An old tag is attached to this object, which reads: "For Prof. Mason. Accession No. 34779. From Calebra Island, about 15 miles from Porto Rico, to the east. Made from the inner bark of the majagua (hibiscus?). Culebra I'd has a population of 700, has only brackish water, and only one vehicle -- an ox cart belonging to the governor. Collected by A. B. Barker". Also, written in pencil, twice, is "Virg. Island", but there is no indication of who wrote this, or when (other than it was clearly after the text in ink was written), or what evidence they may have had that it was from the Virgin Islands..
label: Notes
content: Possibly E201030B. In this accession, only E201030B (sandal-rope) and E201029 (a pair of "rope slippers") are missing. It seems possible that this is the "sandal rope" (E201030B) but there is not enough information on the card (there is no ledger entry) to match this object with that record. It is also possible that this rope was missed during cataloging and never got an original number -- the list of items in the ledger book appears to be incomplete.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: U.S. Virgin Islands (not certain) / Puerto Rico (not certain), British Virgin Islands (not certain), Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: West Indian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034779
label: USNM Number
content: ET7126-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rope