Fly Brush
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: FLATTENED, WOODEN HANDLE, PARTIALLY WRAPPED WITH COCONUT FIBER CORD WITH THE SPLIT BLACK FEATHERS OF THE MAN OF WAR BIRD. USED AS A FLY WHISK. THIS OBJECT FORMERLY ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. EXAMINED BY K.P. EMORY, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3816-8. ORIG. 674. FEATHER "FLY BRUSH", SPLIT FEATHERS. "FLY BRUSH MADE OF THE FEATHERS OF THE MAN OF WAR BIRD BY THE NATIVES OF DISAPPOINTMENT ISLAND." 3817 - 3 3/8" LENGTH HANDLE, 1" WIDE. 1/4" MAX. THICKNESS. WRAPPED WITH SENNIT CORD (TWINE). (THIS ABOVE INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Notes
content: Published in "The Journal of the Polynesian Society" Special Issue: Polynesian Art: Histories and Meanings in Cultural Contexts. Volume 116, No. 2, June 2007. Pages 118-119.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Aug 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Napuka Island, Disappointment Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3817-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fly Whisk
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 36 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 40 cm