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: NECKLACE COMPOSED OF A COCONUT FIBER CORD WITH SMALL BEADS MADE OF COCONUT SHELL STRUNG ALONG IT. TO THIS MAIN CORD ARE OTHER COCONUT FIBER CORD LOOPS ALSO STRUNG WITH COCONUT SHELL BEADS. MARKS= REMNANT OF ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THIS HAD BEEN TAGGED WITH THE WRONG CATALOGUE NUMBER, 15115, BUT WAS IDENTIFIED FROM THE REMNANT OF THE PEALE TAG, AND FURTHER CHECKED AGAINST AN OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WHICH READS, "NECKLACE - STRING OF TWISTED VEGETABLE FIBER TO WHICH ARE PENDANT LOOPS OF ANNULAR SECTIONS OF TWIGS STRUNG ON VEGETABLE FIBER, LENGTH 14", LOOP LENGTH 1 1/4" ".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kiribati Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Gilbertese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3664-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 55 cm
label: Unknown - Loops
content: 3 cm