Sleeping Mat
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: FINELY WOVEN, GOLDEN COLORED, FRINGED MAT MADE OF TWILLED HYBISCUS BARK. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, A TAG ATTACHED READS, "BLACK TRUNK L ORN[I]TH[OLOGY] DEPT". (THE ORNITHOLOGY DEPT WAS HEADED BY TITIAN PEALE). THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., BUT WAS REMOVED BECAUSE OF THE MAT'S FRAGILE CONDITION, 1984.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3705-13. MOST OF THESE MATS ARE NARROW AND WORN AROUND THE WAIST BY THE MEN." FROM CARD: "SLEEPING MAT. TAHITI. ORIGINALLY CATALOGED AS GILBERTS. PEALE CATALOG SAYS: "SLEEPING MATS USED BY THE NATIVES OF TAHITI." FINE TWILLED WEAVE, FRINGED."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tahiti, Society Islands, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tahitian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3706-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 175 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 92.5 cm
label: Unknown - Fringe
content: 16 cm