Wooden Box With Lid
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Major William Rich
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: WOODEN CONTAINER WITH LID, APPARENTLY CARVED FROM A SINGLE PIECE OF WOOD. THE SIDES OF THE CONTAINER HAVE SMALL LUGS WITH HOLES IN THEM, A THIRD LUG IS ON THE LID. A COCONUT FIBER CORD PASSES THROUGH THE HOLES IN THESE LUGS, SECURING THE LID. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. "WM. RICH, JANUARY 30, 1841" WRITTEN ON BOTTOM. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. IDENTIFIED BY SAUL RIESENBERG AS BOWDITCH ISLAND TYPE.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PEALE CATALOG SAYS "SMALL BASKET MADE OF WOOD BY THE KINGSMILL ISLANDERS" (=GILBERTS)."
label: Notes
content: There appears to be some confusion on the cultural designation for this object. Peale catalogue indicates it is from Kingsmill Islanders. Anthropology ledger book lists locality as Bowditch I. Anthropology catalogue card lists it as "Bowditch Island Fakaofo - Tokelau Group or Gilbert Is.?" Former curator Saul Riesenberg called it Bowditch Island type. Object appears to resemble other boxes listed as from Tokelau and so has been left stored with them.
label: Notes
content: On p. 18 of National Institute for the Promotion of Science, Washington, D.C. A Popular Catalogue of the Extraordinary Curiosities In the National Institute, Arranged In the Building Belonging to the Patent Office. Washington: A. Hunter, 1855, Peale # 627 is identified as "Spice box from Bowditch Island."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kiribati Islands (not certain) / Tokelau Islands (not certain), Kiribati (not certain) / New Zealand (Aotearoa) (not certain), Micronesia (not certain) / Polynesia (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Gilbertese (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3789-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 8.8 cm
label: Diameter - Base
content: 9.1 cm
label: Diameter - Lid
content: 8.8 cm