Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: SMALL BASKET WHICH IS AN INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR WEAVE OF PANDANUS, CHECKER WEAVE INSIDE AND DIAGONAL WEAVE OUTSIDE. THERE IS A HANDLE OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER WHICH IS ATTACHED TO THE BASKET AND BRAIDED TOGETHER AT THE ENDS. OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL READS, "FISH BASKET - MADE OF THE LEAVES OF THE SCREW PALM; THE INSIDE OF CHECKER WEAVING, THE OUTSIDE OF DIAGONAL WEAVING. HANDLE OF SENNIT, THE TWO PORTIONS BRAIDED TOGETHER AT THE OUTER ENDS. SAMOAN ISLANDS, 1838." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3395-6. CAT. 3395, ORIG. 1058. BASKET OF PANDANUS LEAF. 7.5" SQUARE BASE, 4" DIA. OF MOUTH. ORIG. CAT.: "1058-1062 BASKETS FROM THE SAMOAN ISLANDS." HANDLE OF BLACK AND BROWN SENNIT BRAID, INNER BASKET OF COARSE WEAVE. (NEARLY 1" WEFTS). (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3395-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Sq, Base
content: 19.1 cm
label: Diameter - Of Mouth
content: 10 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 22 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 11 cm