Bead Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1909
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Nathaniel B. Emerson
label: Donor Name
content: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved ivory beads attached to a small carved whale tooth."
label: Notes
content: See p. 74, original # 293, in Smithsonian Institution. 1909. The exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 1909. Washington D.C.: Press of Judd & Detweiler, Inc. This object is described there: "Carved ivory beads, attached to a small carved whale tooth .... This string of beads was worn, it is said, by Keepuolani [Keopuolani]; from her it came into the possession of Manuha'aipo, the grandmother of Kahiamoe. Manuha'aipo took care of the apparel of Keopuolani. The twelve oval beads and the pendant niho are of whale tooth. Such a string of beads as this are very rare."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Aug 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Polynesian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 050958
label: USNM Number
content: E258023-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace