Necklace Of Vertebra Of Snake
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Jul 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Us Consul Isaac M. Brower
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OLD LABEL: "VERTEBRAE OF SNAKE, STRUNG ON STRIPS OF VEGETABLE FIBER." L. 3'."
label: Notes
content: Necklace, sui ni gata, made of the vertebrae of sacred snakes (maybe only one snake here); snakes specially raised for consumption by chiefs and priests. Possibly from the interior of eastern Viti Levu.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Dec 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005306
label: USNM Number
content: E23928-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 91 cm