Flat pandanus basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Feb 2017
label: Collection Date
content: 2008
name: label: Collector
content: Jean T. Chapman-Mason
label: Donor Name
content: Jean T. Chapman-Mason
notes: label: Notes
content: Donor describes as a "flat basket made of natural sundried and naturally ripened rau'ara (pandanus leaves)... (rau 'ara) leaves." "This type of basket is known as a kete papa". [It is] "made without a box mold; it is still commonly made by women of Mitiaro (and Mauke to a smaller extent). The base of the basket is sundried pandanus leaf strips; the darker pandanus is naturally ripened leaves (fallen off the tree) used to make diamond patterns in the basket."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 May 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mitiaro, Cook Islands, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cook Islands Maori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2069807
label: USNM Number
content: E433817-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 55 cm
label: Width
content: 34 cm
label: Height
content: 4 cm