Armlets Or Bracelets
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: FROM CARD: "BLACK WOODY TENDRIL OR FIBRE. OLD LABEL [old 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card]: "EACH CONSISTS OF A BUNDLE OF SMALL RATTAN-LIKE VEGETABLE FIBERS, CUT TO SAME LENGTH, AND BENT IN CIRCLET WITH ENDS OVERLAPPING, AND HELD BY AN INTERWOVEN KNOT OF SAME FIBER."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 1662-1666 as "Amulets [sic] made of roots and worn by the Fiji Islanders."
label: Notes
content: Each bracelet is made up of several black woody fibers, bent into a round shape and fastened with a woven knot of the same fibers. Two of the bracelets contain a blue bead woven into the fiber knot.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Nov 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3167-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bracelet
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 8 cm
label: Circumference - Object
content: 32 cm