FMNH 273642.C

  • 273642 putea, vegetal material bags
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    Scanner: Allison Coates : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Chicago Natural History Museum - Ethnology | Catalogue No. 273642 / A-C | ENT | Accession No. 2616 | Field Catalogue No. FC-4681 | Negative No. | Sub. Ind. No 51-8 | General Provenience: Polynesia New Zealand | Where collected: | Where made: | Attribution: | Tribe: | People: Maori | Culture: | Brief description: Bags (putea) | Detailed description: Three modern woven bags (of pandanus?) with twisted fiber (flax) carring loops. "A" is of natural undyed fiber; "B" has some black-dyed fiber; and "C" has both black and green fiber. | See reverse | Dimensions (in cm.): See reverse. Length: Width: Height: Circumfrence: Diameter: | Fuller Collection: Purchased from Captain A.W.F. Fuller of London, England, in 1958. (over) Tag: "Made by RAPAI, an old woman of the ARAWA tribe of Rotoua in 1910, showing the plain, native dyed (black), [BACK] Dimensions: Length: Width: *Medial vertical. **Basal horizontal. | /A 12.0* 19.0** | /B 12.5* 17.0** | /C 9.0* 10.8** | Continuation of tag: and pakeha (green) types." Presented to Fuller on October 7, 1911 by Maggie TAME (known as Maggie PAPAKURA). The latter was a guide for the Prince of Wales, Duke of York, and later George the V.
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    Creator: Mr. Christopher J. Philipp : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
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    Description: excerpt of conversations on Sonoband 138 between Roland Force and Captain A.W.F. Fuller, 1958
Catalog Number: 273642.C
Description: bag
Materials: vegetal material, vegetal fiber; muka - New Zealand flax (harakeke), dye
Cultural Attribution: Māori, Arawa, Polynesian
Accession Number: [2616] A. W. F. Fuller (Purchase)
Accession Year: 1958
Other Numbers: FC 4681
Collector/Source: Captain Alfred W. F. Fuller, Captain Alfred W. F. Fuller
EMu IRN: 1398141
GUID: 7f91b93c-3732-412f-a081-1875c3f1bf66

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