Basket, Wallet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. William M. Walker
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: SMALL, FLAT, LOOSELY WOVEN WALLET-LIKE BASKET. THE MATERIAL WAS PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED AS "SEA GRASS," IT MAY VERY WELL BE MAKALOA SEDGE IN VARYING SHADES FROM A LIGHT BEIGE TO A LIGHT BROWN. THIS BASKET HAS BEEN CATALOGUED AS HAWAIIAN SINCE 1867, EVEN THOUGH IT IS LISTED IN THE TONGA SERIES. IT MAY BE THAT IT WAS COLLECTED IN TONGA.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "WALLET--LOOSELY WOVEN, OF DULL COLORED SEA-GRASS, WITH STRANDS OF WHITE WORKED IN. LOANED TO BISHOP MUSEUM 1/23/78. RETURNED FROM BISHOP MUSEUM 2/15/78."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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: E3501-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 23.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 19.5 cm