Comb
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: ELONGATED COMB MADE OF A RAFT OF ELEVEN BLACKENED COCONUT LEAF MIDRIBS LASHED TOGETHER WITH COIR FIBERS, & PANDANUS LEAF. AT THE TOP IS A DECORATIVE BOW OF PANDANUS. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAGS. OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL READS, "COMB MADE OF ELEVEN STICKS OF BLACK WOOD ABOUT 1/8 INCH IN DIAMETER, BOUND SIDE BY SIDE WITH CORDS OF BROWN VEGETABLEFIBER INTERWOVEN INTO AN ORNAMENTAL PATTERN. ACROSS THE TOP IS TIED A STRIP OF WHITE VEGETABLE FIBER...". EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "COMB.--MADE OF ELEVEN STICKS OF BLACK WOOD ABOUT 1/8 INCH IN DIAMETER, BOUND SIDE BY SIDE WITH CORDS OF BROWN VEGETABLE FIBER INTERWOVEN INTO AN ORNAMENTAL PATTERN. ACROSS THE TOP IS TIED A STRIP OF WHITE VEGETABLE FIBER. LENGTH OF TEETH, 3 3/4 INS. HANDLE, 5 1/2 INS. TOTAL LENGTH, 9 1/4 INS. WIDTH, 1 1/4 INS. POLYNESIA, 1841. 3,191. U.S. EXPLOR. EXPEDITION, CAPT. CHAS. WILKES, U.S.N."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3191-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Comb
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 25.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.2 cm