Musical Bow: "Ukeke"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1909
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Nathaniel B. Emerson
label: Donor Name
content: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "See Bulletin 38 Bu Am Eth pp 147 to 149."
label: Notes
content: Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005.
label: Notes
content: From Musical Instrument cards: "A stick of ulei wood flat on its face and rounded at back. One end is cut in fish tail form in opposite end are 3 small holes about 1/4 inch apart. It is strung with 3 strings of twisted 2 ply cocoanut fiber. one end is passed thru the small hole and knotted, the other stretched or wound aroud the waist of the fish ? They are tuned to suit the players ear more commonly used to accompany amorous ditties [sic] in love making. Originally the strings were like those in this specimen. After teh white man's arrival they were of horse hair and of late gut violin strings are used. There should be 2 pieces of wood placed near the ends of the strings between them and the wood of the bow, to act as bridges. They are missing."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 050958
label: USNM Number
content: E258043-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Musical Bow