Earplug
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: Peale catalogue identifies #s 1659 - 1661 as "Ornaments worn in the slit lobes of their ears by the Fiji Islanders."
label: Notes
content: Earplug or ear ornament, "saunidaliga". Wooden ring with faceted glass beads tied around it with coconut fiber. There are 17 beads: 1 black, 1 clear, 3 green, 12 various shades of blue.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Apr 2017
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: E3050-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Earplug
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 4.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 1.5 cm
label: Circumference - Object, Including Beads
content: 13.3 cm