Fish-Hook Of Pearl
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1829
name: label: Collector
content: Dr F. Wessels
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS NUMBER TENTATIVELY PLACED ON A SOCIETY ISLAND COMPOSITE BONITO HOOK WHICH LACKS ANY NUMBER. 3/13/61."
label: Notes
content: Catalog card says donor is Wilkes Exploring Expedition, but Dr. Wessels is listed as the donor in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book. The original accession number is unknown, but per Jane Walsh it is not a Wilkes/U.S. Exploring Expedition piece. Wessels is probably the same person referenced in other records as Dr. F. Wessels of the U.S. Navy. Some records for material from Wessels list a donation? date of 1830. It is possible this object, and other Wessels pieces, came as part of the National Institute collections. See Anthropology ledger book for Catalogue No. E5740, which is also from Wessels, but where the ledger book entry also lists "National Institute." This may be part of either National Institute Accession No. 81 or 135? See also remarks for E2126.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tahiti, Society Islands, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E3679-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook