Food Dish
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Henry Eld
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: LONG, NARROW, CARVED WOODEN DISH IN THE SHAPE OF A CANOE, PRESUMABLY USED FOR FOOD. THE DISH IS THIN-WALLED, AND POLISHED. THERE IS A GROOVE CARVED AT EACH OF THE PAINTED ENDS, POSSIBLY FOR POURING. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO "US EX EX COL MR. H. ELD VINCENNES". THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., BUT WAS REMOVED AND EXHIBITED IN MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: CAT. 3355, ORIG. 1067 WOODEN DISH. 21 1/4" LONG, 4" WIDE, 2" HIGH. THIN, BROWN WOOD, POLISHED, GROOVE IN EACH END, POURING GROOVE. ORIG. CAT.: "WOODEN DISH USED BY THE SAMOANS FOR ANOINTING THEMSELVES WITH COCONUT OIL." (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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: E3355-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dish
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 54 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 10.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 7.8 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 4.5 cm