Dance Rattle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Jul 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Us Consul Isaac M. Brower
label: Donor Name
content: Us Consul Isaac M. Brower
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "IN THE COLLECTION 6/1984." FROM CARD: "BRACELET.---NARROW STRAP OF TWISTED VEGETABLE FIBER TO WHICH ARE PENDANT POLISHED HALVES OF BLACK NUT-SHELLS. MUSICAL IN CHARACTER, AND WORN IN DANCING. LENGTH, 8 INS. SHELLS, 7/8 INCH LONG. FIJI ISLANDS, 1875. 24,012. COLLECTED BY J. M. BROWER, U. S. CONSUL."
label: Notes
content: Catalog card says dance rattle from Solomon Islands, second card says bracelet from Fiji. Which is correct? Other card must be typing/transcription error. Provenance changed to reflect uncertainty.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Solomon Islands (not certain) / Fiji (not certain), 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: E24012-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 20 cm
label: Length - Shells
content: 2.223 cm