Necklace Of Ivory Beads
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: D. Smith
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: NECKLACE OF CARVED WHALE IVORY BEADS AND AMBER GLASS. SEVEN OF THE IVORY BEADS ARE ROUGHLY BARREL SHAPED,TWO ARE MORE OR LESS OVAL, AND THE SMALL AMBER COLORED GLASS BEADS ARE STRUNG BETWEEN THE IVORY. THE VEGETABLE FIBER CORD DISINTEGRATED AT SOME TIME IN THE PAST AND WAS REPLACED WITH COTTON STRING. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY, 4:1, P. 115, PL. 3. NOTE ON OLD CATALOGUE CARD STATES THAT DR. CARL SCHUSTER AND DR. ROBERT SUGGS IDENTIFIED THE OBJECT AS PROBABLY FIJIAN. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Heavy carved whale ivory beads in the form of a flanged barrel, originally strung as a vegetable fiber cord with small amber glass beads between, but later when fiber disintegrated was strung on plain commercial cotton cord. These beads were originally marked from Kingsmill (Gilbert) Islands (and subsequently had been attributed to the Marquesas Is.), but an inquiry in Current Anthropology, 4:1, p. 115, p1. 3, elicited several replies: from Dr. Carl Schuster, independent Anthrop. Researcher, Dr. Robert Suggs, of similar status, etc. the gist of whose data was that the type is not known from the Marquesas (no mention was ever made of Gilberts) and that several known specimens in other museums are mostly from Fiji, and therefore that it is most likely that this specimen had its origin there. Where it might have gotten traded is a question. Refer to: Ethnologica Cranmorensis, 20:1, 1937, pp 21—5. E. L. Gruning, 'Notes on Burial Caves in the Cook Group...' Refer also to photos in the file of specimens in other museums, of Fiji similar specimens."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji (not certain), Melanesia (not certain)
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: E3660-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Ivory Beads
content: 3.8 cm
label: Length - Ivory Beads
content: 5.2 cm
label: Width - Ivory Beads
content: 2.9 cm
label: Width - Ivory Beads
content: 3 cm