Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Aug 2003
name: label: Donor Name
content: Betty Jane Henderson
notes: label: Notes
content: 5 stranded shell lei made of Leptothyra verruca Turbinidae (kahelelani, the royal going) and Turbo sandwicensis Turbinidae (kamoa, Samoa) shells, done in single pikake or olepelepe (sewn by opening and closing) style. Colors from back to front are: white with pink striations (ke 'oke 'o), brown (maku'e), yellow (kamoa), pink ('akala pua, pink flower), light brown striated with green tint (oma 'oma 'o, green), and dark red-burgundy ('ula 'ula). Finished with a brown and white striated sundial puka shell on either side of one white cowry shell. Ends of strands glued into cowry shell. Two dark red-burgundy shells broken off.
label: Notes
content: Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Niʻihau (Niihau) Island, Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2029749
label: USNM Number
content: E430779-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 44.5 cm