Human Hair Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Charles Wilkes
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FINELY BRAIDED HAIR NECKLACE WHICH IS WRAPPED AT BOTH ENDS WITH COCONUT FIBER CORD TO FORM TWO LOOPS. THE STRANDS OF HAIR ARE WRAPPED AT INTERVALS WITH A SINGLE STRAND OF VEGETABLE FIBER. OLD EXHIBITION LABEL (CA. 1870'S) READS, "NECKLACES (7) - PLAITED, NARROW CORDS OF HUMAN HAIR, WOUND IN SKEINS; ENDS WORKED IN EYES AND FITTED WITH TWISTED CORDS OF VEGETABLE FIBER FOR TYING. LENGTHS, 1 1/2 TO 2 FT. WIDTHS, 1 TO 3 INS. PENRHYN ISLAND, 1840. [Catalogue Nos.] 3804, 3805, 3806, 3808, 3809, 3810, 3811. U.S. EXPLOR. EXPEDITION, CAPT. CHAS. WILKES, U.S.N."
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SMALL NECKLACE OF HUMAN HAIR BRAID. HAIR, BROWN BLACK, SPLICED TOGETHER AT NUMEROUS POINTS BY WRAPPING OF A SINGLE COCONUT FIBRE. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41). INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Penrhyn Atoll, Cook Islands, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongarevan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3804-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 48 cm
label: Width - Thick
content: 3 cm