Shark Skin Rasp
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: WOODEN OBJECT WITH SHARKSKIN ATTACHED BY MEANS OF WOODEN DOWELS. THE OBJECT IS MORE OR LESS TRIANGULAR WITH A WOODEN HANDLE WHICH HAS A COCONUT FIBER CORD ATTACHED THROUGH A HOLE DRILLED IN THE END. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1989 [that exhibit dismantled in 2004.] EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: ROM CARD: "CAT. 3389, ORIG. 1079 RASP. SAMOA. SKIN OF SHARK. 3.8" MAX. WIDTH. 18" TOTAL LENGTH. 4.7" LENGTH OF HANDLE. ORIG. CAT.: "1079 ILI-ILI (SKIN) OR RASP MADE OF SHARK SKINS BY THE SAMOANS." SENNIT LOOP AT END OF HANDLE GOES THROUGH HOLE IN END FASTENED ON BY PLUGS (DOWELS). HAS SHARP EDGE. MAXIMUM THICKNESS, 1 INCH. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3389-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rasp
physicalDescription: label: Minimum Unknown - Object
content: 9.7 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 46 cm
label: Length - Total Of Handle
content: 11.9 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 46 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 10 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 3.5 cm