Mounted Betelnut Trimmer
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Jul 1998
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Endowment for the Arts
notes: label: Notes
content: SCISSOR-LIKE TOOL W/ BROAD SHARP BLADE ON TOP COUNTERED BY GROOVED RECIPROCAL BAR AT BOTTOM. PIVOTED AT FRONT. BOW HANDLES COVERED IN CLEAR PLASTIC TUBING. ON ONE SIDE "GUAM JFL"IS INCISED. TRIMMER GLUED AT TWO POINTS TO CARVED WOOD MOUNT. BACKSIDE OF MOUNT ROUNDED, WHILE FRONT IS FLAT W/ 2 WOODEN CARVINGS OF LATTE STONES GLUED TO EITHER SIDE OF A ROUND METAL MEDAL. LATTE STONES ARE STONE PILLARS OF ANCIENT CHAMORRO HOUSED NOTABLE FOR THEIR 2-PIECE CONSTRUCTION; THE SUPPORTING COLUMN (HALAGI) TOPPED W/ A CAPSTONE (TASA). THE MEDAL HAS FOLLOWING WORDS IN RELIEF: "WHERE AMERICA'S DAY BEGINS; HAFA ADAI; 1974; TERRITORY OF GUAM - USA." AN OUTLINE OF GUAM AND A LATTE STONE ARE ALSO DEPICTED IN RELIEF ON THE MEDAL.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Guam (Guåhan), United States, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chamoru (CHamoru, Chamorro)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420704
label: USNM Number
content: E428727-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Scissors
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 15.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 11.5 cm