Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Augustus L. Case
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: OVAL SHAPED COILED BASKET, PRESUMABLY PANDANUS FIBERS WHICH HAVE BEEN DYED BLACK. THE BASKET IS ORNAMENTED BY MEANS OF A FINELY BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD WHICH IS SLIPPED THROUGH THE BASKET COILS AT VARYING INTERVALS TO FORM A PATTERNED FIGURES.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3598-9. AN OVAL BLACK BASKET, ORNAMENTED BY FIGURES ON THE OUTSIDE MADE OF SMALL FLAT SENNIT MADE OF THE FIBRES OF THE COCOANUT. LENGTH, 17; WIDTH, 11; DEPTH, 4 1/2. LOAN: SITES JAN 9, 1987. MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 933 and 934 as "Work baskets made and used by the chief women only of the Tonga Islands."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated Fig. 17.1b, p. 261 and discussed p. 260-261 in Kaeppler, Adrienne L. 2019. "A Kato Mosi Kaka and other Treasures from Tonga from the US Exploring Expedition." In Collecting and Provenance: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Milosch, Jane and Pearce, Nick, editors. 257–268. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Identified as a kato alu basket.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tongatapu Group, Tonga, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3598-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 45 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 11.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 29 cm