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: FROM CARD: "MADE OF SWINE'S TEETH & BEADS OF SHELL AND GLASS."
label: Notes
content: Peale # 1649. Peale catalogue identifies # 1648 and 1649 as "Necklaces made of dogs teeth. Fiji Islands."
label: Notes
content: Animal teeth alternate with round disks of shell. In center is a green glass bead. All are strung on twisted vegetal fiber. There are knots at each end of fiber.
label: Notes
content: Per Ximena Lemoine, NMNH Program in Human Ecology and Archaeobiology, 2013, at least one canid (dog) tooth is present in this necklace. The other teeth have been modified and so it is harder to tell whether they are pig or dog, though dog is possible.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jul 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3179-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 11 cm
label: Length - Including String
content: 24 cm