Basket Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: "RUBU", OR FINELY WOVEN PANDANUS LEAF BAG OR SATCHEL. THE INTERIOR IS COARSELY WOVEN OF WIDER PANDANUS STRIPS AND THE EXTERIOR IS FINELY WOVEN IN DECORATIVE GEOMETRIC PATTERNS OF BLACK AND NATURAL PANDANUS. THE OPENING AT THE TOP IS TIED WITH A BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: SEE FERGUS CLUNIE, "YALO I VITI," FIJI MUSEUM, 1986, P. 31 FOR SIMILAR EXAMPLE. OLD EXHIBIT LABEL READS, "BASKET WALLET. GROUNDWORK MADE OF STRIPS OF PALM WROUGHT IN CHECKER PATTERN: THIS IS OVERLAID WITH A PATTERN OF SIMILAR DESIGN WOVEN FROM VERY NARROW STRIPS OF THE SAME MATERIAL. BY MEANS OF PERPENDICULAR ROWS OF WHITE AND BLACK AND THE IRREGULAR LAP OF EACH WARP STRAND, A PLEASING VARIETY IN THE ORNAMENTATION IS OBTAINED. LENGTH 15" , DEPTH 9"." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3239-51. THIS WALLET IS DOUBLE LIKE A PANNIER. CAT. 3239, ORIG. 1841. SATCHEL, 9" X 15". TWILLED, STAR DESIGN INNER ENVELOPE OF 1/4", SENNIT HANDLE. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3239-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 38 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 23 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 38 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 22.6 cm