Double Basket, Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Titian R. Peale
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: "RUBU," OR FINELY WOVEN, FLAT, PANDANUS LEAF, DOUBLE BAG, SATCHEL OR WALLET. THE INTERIOR IS COARSELY WOVEN OF WIDER GAUGE PANDANUS STRIPS AND THE EXTERIOR IS FINELY WOVEN IN DECORATIVE GEOMETRIC PATTERNS IN DARK BROWN, BLACK & NATURAL PANDANUS, COMBINED WITH A WIDER BLACK & NATURAL CHECKER WEAVE. THIS IS A DOUBLE BASKET, HAVING TWO COMPARTMENTS LIKE A SADDLE BAG. THE OPENINGS ARE TIED W/ EIGHT CORDS OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER/SENNIT. HAS 2 ORIGINAL PEALE TAGS. SOMEHOW THIS BASKET, WITH TWO COMPARTMENTS, WAS GIVEN TWO PEALE NUMBERS (1877 AND 1878) AND SUBSEQUENTLY TWO SMITHSONIAN CATALOGUE NUMBERS, BY MISTAKE. SINCE BOTH # 3249 & # 3250 ARE THE SAME OBJECT, THEY HAVE BEEN CALLED # 3249 FOR RECORDKEEPING PURPOSES. EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "3249-3250, AND 3299. WALLETS(3).-MADE OF STRIPS OF PALM DIFFERING IN WIDTH. THE PATTERN IS SIMILAR TO THAT DESCRIBED IN NO. 3,239, EXCEPT THAT IN THESE SPECIMENS THE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE ARE MADE TO CHANGE PLACES ALTERNATELY, AND THE VERTICAL STRIPS OF THE WIDER SERIES ARE DYED BLACK. HANDLE OF VERY FINE BROWN SEAWEED PLAITED. Length, 18 inches; depth, 8 inches."
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: E3249-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 49.4 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 22 cm
label: Length - Handle
content: ca. 71 cm