Sailing Chart
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 May 1982
name: label: Collector
content: Avis Waring
label: Donor Name
content: Avis Waring
notes: label: Notes
content: A FRAMEWORK OF OVERLAPPING THIN STICKS OF THE AERIAL ROOTS OF PANDANUS, DEPICTING THE PATTERNS OF WAVE MOTION IN AREA OF THE NATIVES' MOVEMENT. THE SMALL ATTACHED COWRIE SHELLS INDICATE THE POSITIONS OF KNOWN ISLANDS. THESE CHARTS WERE USED AS AN AID IN NAVIGATION BY OUTRIGGER CANOE. THIS ONE WAS MADE FOR DECORATIVE SALE(?). OBJECT WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A MANUSCRIPT OF INFORMATION FROM A NATIVE ON THE USE OF THESE CHARTS (A COPY OF WHICH IS FILED IN THE NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHIVES). REFER: CAPT. WINKLER "ON SEA CHARTS FORMERLY USED IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS...," SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORT, 1899, P. 487-508.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Marshall Islands, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Marshallese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 350950
label: USNM Number
content: E421976-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Navigation Chart
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 57 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 57 cm