Knit Cotton Sock
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Joseph P. Couthouy
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: VERY SMALL BABY SOCK OF KNITTED COTTON, OF LIGHT TAN COLOR. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THE SOCK WAS FORMERLY MOUNTED ON A PIECE OF WOOD WHICH HAS VARIOUS LABELS: U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION, CAPT. C. WILKES, USN, COMMANDER - MISSIONARY SCHOOL AT MAUI, SANDWICH IS., U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION, ETC. WASHINGTON CITY, USA, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. OBJECT CONSERVED AND TAKEN OFF MOUNT FOR EXHIBIT. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. A SHIPPING LIST NOTES THAT JOSEPH COUTHOUY WAS THE COLLECTOR OF ALL THESE "MISSION" PIECES.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HANDKNIT. LOANED TO BISHOP MUSEUM 1/23/78. RETURNED FROM BISHOP MUSEUM 2/15/78."
label: Notes
content: The records indicate this was collected at the "Seminary" on Maui. This is presumed to be the Wailuku Female Seminary for Hawaiian Girls, run by the Reverend Jonathan Smith Green and his wife Theodosia starting in 1837, and located in Wailuku, Maui. Edward Bailey and his wife Caroline later took over the running of the Wailuku Female Seminary.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wailuku (not certain), Maui Island, 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: E3647-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sock
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 16.5 cm
label: Width - Heel-toe
content: 7.5 cm