Hair Pin
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: ELONGATED HAIR PIN MADE FROM A SINGLE BLACKENED, COCONUT LEAF MIDRIB LASHED AT THE UPPER PORTION WITH COIR FIBERS, AND SURMOUNTED WITH A PANDANUS LEAF BOW. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. A NOTE ON THE OLD CATALOGUE CARD STATES, "THE PURPOSE IS NOT TO PIN THE HAIR, BUT TO SCRATCH THE SCALP WITHOUT DISARRANGING THE MOP-LIKE COIFFURE." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mbua (Bua) Bay, Vanua Levu Island, 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: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3183-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hair Pin
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 39 cm