Shell Lures
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: TWO SHELLS (CYPREA CARNELOA) WITH SMALL HOLES DRILLED FOR ATTACHING TO A LINE, USED AS LURES FOR SQUID. THERE WERE ORIGINALLY THREE, ONE (PEALE #873) IS MISSING, 1985. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAGS, 868 & 872. PREVIOUSLY CATALOGUED AS NECK ORNAMENTS. PIILANI, MINNIE AND WILLIAM KAAWALOA SAY "USED AS LURES FOR SQUID. [THIS] IS CALLED MAKAU HE'E, THE SHELL CALLED A LEHO." 1985. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975. CYPREA CARNEOLA. PENDANT ORNAMENTS OF POLISHED SHELLS. L. 2 1/2". HEIGHT, 1 1/4"."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies 868 and 872 as "Shells used as bait in catching cuttle fish by the Hawaiian Islanders."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3557-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Both
content: 6.5 cm
label: Width - Both
content: 3.5 cm