Storyboard
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Jul 1999
name: label: Collector
content: Marie-Helene Sachet
label: Donor Name
content: Muriel W. Sterne
notes: label: Notes
content: RECTANGULAR PIECE OF IRONWOOD (INSTSIA BIJUGA) CARVED AND UNPAINTED. GEOMETRIC CARVED BORDER AROUND CENTRAL IMAGE OF CANOE, 5 FIGURES AND A HOUSE (BAI). MARIE-HELENE SACHET (COLLECTOR) REMARKS:"ON INSTSIA BIJUGA WOOD (IRONWOOD)." COLLECTOR'S DESCRIPTION "STORY OF MAN WHO SEES A SHARK SWIMMING UPSIDE DOWN - THE CLUE THAT HIS WIFE IS BEING UNFAITHFUL. HE RETURNS AND SPEARS HIS WIFE'S LOVER WHILE HIS WIFE RUNS, HALF-CLOTHED." ACCORDING TO ADRIENNE KAEPPLER (CURATOR OF OCEANIC ETHNOLOGY) THIS IS A WELL KNOWN STORY IN BELAU.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Palau, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Palauan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420729
label: USNM Number
content: E428730-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Storyboard
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 60.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 17.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 2 cm