Tobacco Roll
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 May 2013
label: Collection Date
content: 1972
name: label: Collector
content: Richard Feinberg
label: Donor Name
content: Richard Feinberg
notes: label: Notes
content: Bundle of dried leaves, tightly wound (almost completely covered) with braided fiber cord.
label: Notes
content: Uupaka (tobacco roll) covered with leaf of umbrella palm (rau purou) and wrapped tightly with unidentified indigenous cordage. Tobacco is grown on Anuta, and people smoke with clay pipes. Important object of exchange during marriages and other rites of passage. (Per curator Joshua Bell; notes from speaking to Feinberg, Aug 16, 2012.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anuta Island, Solomon Islands, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Anutan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2059846
label: USNM Number
content: E433244-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tobacco
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 90.2 cm
label: Width
content: 7.6 cm
label: Diameter
content: 7.6 cm