Basketry Crocodile
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Dec 1986
label: Collection Date
content: 1960
name: label: Collector
content: Bruce Miller
label: Donor Name
content: Center For International Cutural Exchange
notes: label: Notes
content: WOVEN RATTAN AND MATTING OVER WOOD FRAME, FRINGES HANGING ALONG ENTIRE LENGTH FROM MOUTH TO TAIL. WOOD STRIP DOWN THE BACK. WOODEN LEGS WITH SHELL AROUND. PROBABLY USED IN CEREMONY ASSOCIATED WITH MEN'S CULT HOUSE. POOR CONDITION: LEGS BROKEN, BASKETRY BRITTLE AND UN- RAVELLING, EYE FALLEN OUT (BUT STORED WITH SPECIMEN).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Dec 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tambanum, Sepik River (Middle), New Guinea / East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iatmul
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 351926
label: USNM Number
content: E422946-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 427 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 91 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 46 cm