Basket For Catching Shrimps And Small Fish
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1896
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FOR CATCHING SHRIMPS AND SMALL FISH; BOAT SHAPED; BAMBOO SPLITS PARALLEL ON THE SIDES; BRAIDED IN GROUPS OF 8-15 ON THE ENDS. SEVEN ROWS OF TWINED WEAVING HOLD THE SIDES IN PLACE AND TWO PAIRS OF SMALL HOOPS PERFORM THE SAME FUNCTION FOR THE ENDS, BEING HELD ON WITH A ROW OF SINGLE KNOTS. THE BORDER IS A HALF STEM OF RATTAN, BENT TO A RECTANGLE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS, THE ENDS JOINED IN A LAP SPLICE FASTENED TOGETHER WITH WOODEN PEGS. THIS HOOP IS PIERCED IN PLACES AND THROUGH THE HOLES THE JOINING WORK OF THE SIDES AND ENDS ALL ARE PASSED. THE ENDS OF THE BORDER ARE STRENGTHENED AND PADDED EACH WITH A STICK OF HARD WOOD AND SOME STRIPS OF CANE, TIED ON WITH MALAY KNOTS, HELD IN FORM AT THE TOP WITH A ROW OF CLOVE HITCHES."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated in Taylor, Paul Michael. 2014. William Louis Abbott in Thailand: A Research Resource on Southern Thailand in the 1890s. Journal of the Siam Society 102:143-168. p 146.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Trong, Thailand, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Siamese
label: Culture
content: Nawng
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 031341
label: USNM Number
content: E176045-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fishing Basket