Tattooing-Rakes 3
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Sep 1959
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. National Museum, Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Hibiscus stick handle. Hafted at end are orange thorns (in number 3, 6, and 10 resp.) set closely side by side and sewed together to form a comb or rake; thread is fine pandanus rootlets, which run across bredth of comb near points of teeth, a second fiber similarly sewed at their middle, the whole laid against end of handle and attached adze-fashion by lashings and breadfruit gum. The 3 rakes, of different size, are used for different stages of tattooing. Obtained by S. H. Riesenberg at Ponape, 1948."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Mar 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Pohnpei Island, Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ponapean
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 227232
label: USNM Number
content: E397781-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tattoo Tool