Flat Wooden Vessel Or Dish
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: "USED FOR MIXING PAINT, HAIR DYE, OIL ETC. "NDARI". [Peale number] 1771= [catalog number] 2822. VESSLES W. HANDLES ARE FOR PAINTS."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue describes #s 1765-1773 as: ""Ndari". Vessels made of wood, used for mixing oil, paint, hair dye &c [&c = etc.] by the Fiji men, at their toilets."
label: Notes
content: Has original Peale # label. Formerly on exhibit in NMNH Pacific Cultures Exhibit Hall 8, Case 40, 1962-2005. Dish carved out of a single piece of wood and consists of oval-shaped shallow bowl with rectangular handle set off to one side but attached by two parallel rectangular arms. Top side of rim of bowl is decorated with deeply incised zigzag pattern. Handle undecorated. Dish is footed, having two feet under bowl and a third in center on underside of handle. Overall the dish is finished smooth but some tool markings are visible, particularly on underside.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
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: E2822-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Vessel
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 34.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 24 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 5 cm