Fly Brush
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: FLATTENED, WOODEN HANDLE, PARTIALLY WRAPPED WITH COCONUT FIBER CORD WITH THE SPLIT BLACK FEATHERS OF THE MAN OF WAR BIRD. USED AS A FLY WHISK. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXAMINED BY K.P. EMORY JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3816-8. 3818, ORIG. 672. FEATHER "FLY BRUSH", SPLIT FEATHERS. "FLY BRUSH MADE OF THE FEATHERS OF THE MAN OF WAR BIRD BY THE NATIVES OF DISAPPOINTMENT ISLAND." (THIS ABOVE INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Notes
content: Published in "The Journal of the Polynesian Society" Special Issue: Polynesian Art: Histories and Meanings in Cultural Contexts. Volume 116, No. 2, June 2007. Pages 118-119.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Napuka Island, Disappointment Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3818-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fly Brush
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 38 cm