Basket, Wallet
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: SMALL, THIN WALLET-LIKE BASKET. HAS LARGER CHECKERWORK INTERIOR, & FINER WOVEN PANDANUS ON EXTERIOR, IN THREE BLACK, RED AND TAN WHICH FORMS A DIAMOND SHAPED DESIGN. THE BASKET IS CLOSED WITH STRANDS OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. EXAMINED AND IDENTIFIED AS FIJIAN BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SENNIT HANDLE, HAD BEEN LABELED "SANDWICH ISLANDS." (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41). TWO PHOTOS ON BACK, ONE LABELED SAMOA, THE OTHER FIJI. SHOW TWO SIDES OF SAME SATCHEL, (EMORY PHOTOS) J.D. 9/12/57. INVENTORIED 1975."
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: E3504-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 33.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 17 cm