Wrapped Wooden Pendant
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FLAT, OBLONG-SHAPED WOODEN PENDANT WHICH IS WRAPPED IN PLAIN WHITE BARK CLOTH, AND HAS A HOLE DRILLED THROUGH THE NARROWER UPPER END. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: KENNETH P. EMORY, "MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO," 1975, P. 234-5, FIG. 188. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3735-8. PEALE CAT.: "PIECES OF WOOD WORN IN FRONT OF THEIR BODIES BY MEN OF THE DISAPPOINTMENT ISLANDS WHILE DANCING"." Published in "The Journal of the Polynesian Society" Special Issue: Polynesian Art: Histories and Meanings in Cultural Contexts. Volume 116, No. 2, June 2007. Page 116.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Napuka Island, Disappointment Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3737-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pendant
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 33.7 cm
label: Minimum Width - Object
content: 2 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 3.7 cm