Heitiki
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FINELY CARVED, DARK, GREENSTONE "HEITIKI" IMAGE WITH EYES OF RED SEALING WAX AND PEARL SHELL. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. THIS OBJECT FORMERLY ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (HALL 8, CASE 6). EXHIBIT BOOK IDENTIFIES THE CORD WITH IT AS AN EXHIBIT PROP. PUBLICATION: "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," BY VIOLA & MARGOLIS, S.I. PRESS, 1985, ILLUSTRATED P. 133.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3756-7. NECK PENDANTS."
label: Notes
content: See: Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory. 2016. Museum perceptions and productions: American migrations of a Maori hei-tiki. Endeavour, 40(1) doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2016.01.001. Kohlstedt indicates that the U.S. Exploring Expedition collected two Maori heitiki, and that one of the two was acquired from the wife of Pomare II (Wilkes, Narrative, vol. 2, p. 413.) While her name was not recorded, Kohlstedt thinks it was very likely Rangingangana, daughter of another chief on North Island. It is not clear in the records which of the two heitiki acquired by the expedition was acquired by Charles Wilkes from Pomare's wife, and the source of the second heitiki was also not recorded. Kohlstedt also indicates that one of the two heitiki, E3757, was lent for display at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Aug 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) / Bay of Islands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3756-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pendant
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 9.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 4.1 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 9.4 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.4 cm