Seed Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Oct 1885
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. State Department
notes: label: Notes
content: Catalog card calls this a "Maori seed necklace" and gives locality as New Zealand, but "Antigua, W[est] I[ndies]?" is pencilled in under culture. The object itself has an old tag with "New Zealand" crossed out, and "Antigua" written in, in old ink/script. There is no indication of who made this guess, or what evidence it is based on. The necklace appears remarkably similar to catalog numbers 126917, and 126919 through 126922, all of which are tentatively identified as being from Antigua (or possibly Hawaii). For now, all are stored together in the Caribbean section pending a reliable identification
label: Notes
content: Adriene Kaeppler, Curator of Ethnology for Oceania, and Jennifer Wagelie, NMNH Anthropology fellow, agree that this is definitely not from New Zealand.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Antigua (not certain), Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016653
label: USNM Number
content: E76559-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace