4 Shells
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Aug 1889
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. U S Navy William E. Safford
label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department of the Navy
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "One shell missing. When received. 6/1962 at this time when taken out for potential use in exhibits, there was only a head band [E130779-0], consisting of a doubled strip of blue denim cloth, 63 cm. L. onto which were sewn two rows of shell - cut parts of the pearly nautilus one row of the coiled center part about 15 mm. dia., and the other row of 3 cm. L. convex sections cut from the curve near the central part of the shell. All have a rather light blue iridescence. Shells sewn on with common white thread. 4 of the latter shell sections [E130779-1] taken off and attached to headdress No. 13643A for exhibit in Hall 8." In 2006, the curator, Adrienne Kaeppler, has decided that the 4 shells removed from E130779 and attached to E13643A for exhibition purposes should be left attached to 13643A.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Apia, Upolu Island, Samoa (Western Samoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022259
label: USNM Number
content: E130779-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shell