Basket Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Charles Wilkes
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: "RUBU," OF FINELY WOVEN, FLAT, PANDANUS LEAF BAG OR SATCHEL. THE INTERIOR IS COARSELY WOVEN OF WIDER GAUGE PANDANUS STRIPS AND THE EXTERIOR IS FINELY WOVEN IN DECORATIVE GEOMETRIC PATTERNS IN DARK BROWN, BLACK AND NATURAL PANDANUS, COMBINED WITH A BLACK AND NATURAL CHECKER WEAVE. THE OPENING AT THE TOP IS TIED WITH A BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. MARKS> HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO AN OLD PRINTED TAG ATTACHED READS, "3299 FEJEE WALLET OR BASKET". PUBLICATION: SEE FERGUS CLUNIE, "YALO I VITI", FIJI MUSEUM, 1986, P. 31, FOR A SIMILAR EXAMPLE.
label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH BENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "3,249-3,250, 3,299. WALLETS(3).-MADE OF STRIPS OF PALM DIFFERING IN WIDTH. THE PATTERN IS SIMILAR TO THAT DESCRIBED IN NO. 3,239, EXCEPT THAT IN THESE SPECIMENS THE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE ARE MADE TO CHANGE PLACES ALTERNATELY, AND THE VERTICAL STRIPS OF THE WIDER SERIES ARE DYED BLACK. HANDLE OF VERY FINE BROWN SEAWEED PLAITED. LENGTH, 18 INCHES; DEPTH, 8 INCHES. SANDWICH ISLANDS. NOS. 3,249, 3,250, AND 3,299. COLLECTED BY LIEUT. WILKES, U.S.N."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3299-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 46 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 20 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 48.4 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 21.3 cm