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Anyone run into information on either of these types of items???

I have a couple of excellent books on Maori weaving, capes, cloaks, skirts, mats.  Also a book in Tropical Drift Seeds - Calling Jessica, get in touch with me!!

I found some online information about Matchbox Beans.  This is for Jessica mainly. http://www.seabean.com/locations/Australia/ http://www.junglejournals.com/2012/10/jungle-plants-matchbox-bean.html http://www.beachbeans.com/descriptions.html Matchbox Bean A robust climbing vine native to the east coast of Cape York produces a poisonous giant hanging bean. The white section of the bean was extracted, baked and pounded to produce a sort of flour that was soaked in fresh water and eaten as a bland, tasteless “porridge”. The bark and stem were soaked in water and crushed with the resulting toxic lather used as a soap and fish poison. Australia's Bountiful Burny Beans Burny beans, also known as Velvet beans, are better known by the scientific name of Mucuna gigantea. They drop from a rampant, fast-growing vine found in monsoon forests, open forests and woodlands, riverine, littoral, subtropical and tropical rainforests. Ours are collected from the beaches of Far No...

Online research for assigned Beardsley Collection Items (1 hour) Research on cataloging of items (1 hour) Gave personal tour of Beardsley Exhibit to Prof. OBrien (1hour) Went to library to research the American Indian Art magazine for blog posting (1 hour)

Item 1 History and Description of the Cultural Item(s) Between 1897 and 1928, one cultural item was removed from Wrangell, AK, by Fred W. Carlyon, a local shop owner. Carlyon and his sister, Anna Vaughn, collected the Shtax' Heen Kwaan Kaachadi Frog Hat during their time in Wrangell in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Later, the hat passed from the collectors to Dorothy K. Haberman, who was Miss Vaughn's daughter. Mrs. Haberman donated the hat to the Oakland Museum of California in 1959. The sacred object/object of cultural patrimony is a clan crest hat in the shape of a frog carved from wood and with copper overlay on formline. The eyes are overlaid with abalone and the hat is topped with five woven spruce root rings. ( FEDERAL NOTICE ) Item 2 "Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: U.W. Department of Defense,  Army corps of Engineers, Portland District, Portland, OR and University of  Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History,...