Sling
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: TWILL PLAITED SLING OF HIBISCUS FIBER WITH BRAIDED STRINGS WHICH ARE KNOTTED AT THE ENDS. THIS SLING WAS CATALOGUED IN 1882 WITH A LARGE GROUP OF OBJECTS WHICH HAD BEEN EXHIBITED IN THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION IN PHILADELPHIA. IT MAY HAVE ORIGINALLY BEEN CATALOGUED AS #2990, SINCE THIS IS THE ONLY OTHER FIJIAN SLING WHICH IS MISSING INVENTORY DATA. EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: ROM CARD: "SLING, NOT SENNIT, PROBABLY HIBISCUS FIBRE. 5" WIDTH OF BAG, 1-3/4" ACROSS. 37" ONE WING, ALSO OF OTHER, ENDS KNOTTED TOGETHER. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K.P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Notes
content: Jane Walsh identifies this as possibly Peale # 2348. Peale catalogue identifies # 2348 and 2349 as "Slings for throwing stones made and used by the natives of the Fiji Islands."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E54276-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sling
physicalDescription: label: Length - Bag
content: 13 cm
label: Width - Bag
content: 4.45 cm
label: Length - One Wing
content: 94 cm
label: Length - Bag
content: 12 cm
label: Unknown - Strings
content: 98 cm
label: Unknown - Strings
content: 103 cm