Shell Ornament (Ovula)
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: Peale catalogue identifies #s 1582 - 1618 as "Shells, worn as ornaments suspended from neck, by the native Fiji Islanders."
label: Notes
content: Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies this as Ovula shell. The word ovula was mistranscribed on the catalogue card as oscula.
label: Notes
content: From old 19th or early 20th century exhibit label: White shell, Ovula ovum [the common egg cowrie], pierced with hole; hung pendant on cord of vegetable fibers [no cord present in 2016]. Cord: 14" long.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Aug 2016
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: E3001-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ornament