Hair Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Jul 1999
name: label: Collector
content: Marie-Helene Sachet
label: Donor Name
content: Muriel W. Sterne
notes: label: Notes
content: 18 THIN PIECES OF WOOD BOUND NEAR BASE AND MIDDLE W/ BROWN CELLULOSE FIBERS. NEAR MIDDLE BROWN CELLULOSE FIBERS INTERWOVEN (3-STRAND TWINING) BETWEEN WOOD PIECES SPREADING STICKS INTO A COMB. A SIMILAR, BUT THINNER AREA OF WEAVE IS LOCATED NEAR THE BASE OF THE OBJECT. ONE SIDE HAS WHITE DOTS SPRINKLED ALONG IT. ACCORDING TO MARIE-HELENE SACHET (COLLECTOR) OBJECT "FROM MICRONESIA." ADRIENNE KAEPPLER (CURATOR OF OCEANIA ETHNOLOGY) REMARKS THAT THIS OBJECT IS IN A TRADITIONALSTYLE AND FROM CHUUK.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chuuk Islands, Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chuuk
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420729
label: USNM Number
content: E428732-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hair Ornament
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 29.3 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 0.5 cm