Armlets Of Shell
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Titian R. Peale
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: " TRUNK L."
label: Notes
content: ARMLET OR BRACELET.
label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARDS FOR E4559 AND E4563: "4,559-63. BRACELETS (6)-LOWER WHORLS OF THE TROCHUS NILOTICUS, NEATLY GROUND INTO RINGS; EXTERIORS SERRATED AND CARVED IN SEMBLANCE OF ENGRAVED SETTING. INNER DIAMETERS, 2 1/2 TO 3 1/8 INCHES. FIJI ISLANDS, 1840. 4,559, 3,054, 4,563. U.S. EXPLOR. EXPEDITION, CAPT. CHAS. WILKES, U.S.N."
label: Notes
content: Two shell bracelets misnumbered 3045 have been changed to # 3054 on the presumption that this was a simple numbering error and because they fit the description of the artifacts in the old exhibit label.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Aug 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E3054-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bracelet