Fly Whisk
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Cadwalader Ringgold
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FLY WHISK WHICH IS COMPOSED OF A CARVED WOODEN HANDLE, WIDER AT THE TOP THAN AT THE CONNECTION TO THE STRANDS OF COCONUT FIBERS WHICH MAKE UP THE WHISK. THE FIBERS ARE BRAIDED ONLY AT THE TOP AND HANG FREE AT THE ENDS. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO WRITTEN ON WHISK "C. RINGGOLD, PORPOISE [brig USS Porpoise was one of the ships used on the U.S. Exploring Expedition], FIJI" ›THIS WAS READ UNDER BLACK- LIGHT. THE WHISK MAY HAVE BEEN SENT FROM FIJI. EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED IN THE LEDGER AS HAWAIIAN.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3578-81. WOOD HANDLES. 3579: LABEL READS: "ORIG, NO. 913." FROM CARD: "ORIG. CAT. "913-921 FLY BRUSHES MADE OF THE FIBRE OF COCOA-NUT HUSKS BY THE NATIVES OF TONGATABU." (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated Fig. 17.4b, p. 264 and discussed p. 262-263 in Kaeppler, Adrienne L. 2019. "A Kato Mosi Kaka and other Treasures from Tonga from the US Exploring Expedition." In Collecting and Provenance: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Milosch, Jane and Pearce, Nick, editors. 257–268. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Identified as fue kafa.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tongatapu Group, Tonga, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3579-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fly Whisk
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 77.5 cm