Bundle of plant fiber

Museum number:

11-43148

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

47 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.3562

Object count:

1

Description:

Plant fiber bundle. Strips from skin of pseubulb of dendrobium orchid. length - 34.0 cm., approx. Plant fiber. Collector states, "yellow grass for weaving nose sticks, king's spears, grows on top of banyan tree on high mountain, very hard to procure.

Donor:

Caroline Mytinger

Collection place:

Guadalcanal Island, Solomon Islands

Culture or time period:

Melanesian

Collector:

Caroline Mytinger

Materials:

Plant fiber

Taxon:

Dendrobium

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

8.3 For Manufacturing

Accession date:

July 22, 1980

Department:

Oceania

Dimensions:

length 34 centimeters

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