Basket

Museum number:

11-31963a

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Accession number:

Acc.1187

Description:

Carrying basket for baby. Purchased from Rafaela, a nurse in Yap Hospital. Used by Rafaela for her own baby.

Donor:

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

Collection place:

Yap Main Islands, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia

Verbatim coll. place:

Yap: Caroline Islands

Culture or time period:

Yap

Collection date:

May 26, 1956

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers)

Function:

6.1 Cradles and Swaddling

Accession date:

1956

Department:

Oceania

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