Belt
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: VERY FINELY WOVEN BANANA FIBER BELT WITH SIX BANDS OF BLACK AND FIVE BANDS OF NATURAL COLOR FIBER. WITHIN THE BLACK BANDS ARE VERY SMALL AND INTRICATE DESIGNS. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. EXAMINED IN 1978 BY DON RUBINSTEIN, WHO BELIEVED THE PIECE TO BE PULUWATESE. SAUL RIESENBERG DOUBTED THIS IDENTIFICATION. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS IS A BANANA FIBER WEAVING, AND LABELLED EGOY OR ULITHI ISLAND. THE SIX BANDS SUGGESTS IT IS PULUWATESE IN ORIGIN, NOT ULITHIAN, WHERE SEVEN BANDS ARE CHARACTERISTIC. THIS PIECE RESEMBLES THE PATTERN ON A MODERN PULUWATESE PIECE #415,105." DON RUBINSTEIN, APRIL, 1978. DR. SAUL RIESENBERG: "DOUBTS THIS IS PULUWAT; IT COULD HAVE CHANGED IN 140 YEARS SINCE THIS ITEM WAS COLLECTED."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ulithi Atoll, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Micronesian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5697-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 146 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 37 cm