Net Floats Of Blown Glass
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Jun 1946
name: label: Donor Name
content: Theodore H. Freter
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PICKED UP BY DONOR ON THE COAST OF OAHU, TERRITORY OF HAWAII, WHITHER THEY HAD DRIFTED WITH PREVAILING OCEAN CURRENTS. SEVEN OF THE FLOATS BEAR MARKS. THIRTEEN ARE GLOBOSE, VARYING IN SIZE FROM 2 1/4" TO 4 1/2" IN DIAMETER; THREE ARE CYLINDRICAL, TWO OF THESE HAVING DEPRESSED DIAMETERS NEAR EACH END. TWO OF THE GLOBULAR FLOATS HAVE MOULD MARKS; THE REMAINDER ARE FREE BLOWN. COLORS RANGE FROM CLEAR GLASS TO LIGHT GREEN TO AMETHYST; ONE IS OF COBALT BLUE. THE FLOATS RESEMBLE CLOSELY THOSE USED BY NORWEGIAN FISHERMEN. LOCALITY CHANGED FROM HAWAII TO JAPAN - APPROVED BY PAUL TAYLOR, 10-22-85. - S. CRAWFORD."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 15
place: label: Place
content: Oahu (Oʻahu) Island (Coast), Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 173381
label: USNM Number
content: E384007-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Net Float