Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: A LARGE SEED, OR SEABEAN (MUCUNA) WAS FOUND WITH THE ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, # 676 STILL ADHERING. IT IS APPARENTLY ALL THAT IS LEFT OF THE ORIGINAL NECKLACE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. AN OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL READS, "NECKLACE.- TEN STRINGS OF HEMP CORD, BOUND TOGETHER AT INTERVALS INTO A STRAP, TO WHICH IS PENDANT A SEABEAN, 'MUCUNA.' LENGTH OF STRAP; 13 INCHES...".
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue includes # 676 under heading of "necklaces worn by the women of Raraka Paumotu group."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Raraka Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3668-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Bean
content: 2.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 2.8 cm