Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 May 2013
label: Collection Date
content: 1972
name: label: Collector
content: Richard Feinberg
label: Donor Name
content: Richard Feinberg
notes: label: Notes
content: Basket made from coconut leaf, woven in 2/1 twill, with edges braided together. Shaped like a shallow tray, somewhat flexible, with 2 loop handles.
label: Notes
content: Rongi - food basket. These are hung from the rafters to keep stored food safe from insects and rats. Usually made by women but not exclusively. A basket like this takes only 15 minutes to make. (Asked about whether replaced by western goods - no, Anuta people still cook in an earth oven, wrap food in leaves and lay out on coconut mat.) Once used to throw things away. This holding onto traditional ways is mustly due to access to goods - the lack thereof - but it is also related to people wanting to hold onto tradition. (Per curator Joshua Bell; notes from speaking to Feinberg, Aug 16, 2012.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anuta Island, Solomon Islands, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Anutan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2059846
label: USNM Number
content: E433231-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 38 cm
label: Width
content: 28 cm
label: Diameter
content: 15.3 cm