Necklace
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: NARROW, TWISTED COCONUT FIBER CORD WITH SEVEN "CYPRAEIDAE" SHELLS & THREE CRAB CLAW JOINTS. THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION OF THIS OBJECT ONLY LISTS THE CRAB CLAW JOINTS AS BEING PRESENT ON THE NECKLACE. OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL READS, "NECKLACE - SMALL CORD OF TWISTED VEGETABLE FIBER, TO WHICH ARE PENDENT THREE JOINTS OF CLAWS OF CRAB. LENGTH 15 INCHES..." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "JOINT OF CRABS CLAWS, AS IN THE COLLECTION 1958 IT ALSO HAS 7 SEA SHELLS ON THE CORD. R. ELDER LOCALITY RE-IDENTIFIED AS RARAKA, TUAMOTUS / M. COOPER."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue includes # 678 under heading of "necklaces worn by the women of Raraka Paumotu group."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Raraka Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3667-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 38 cm