Comb
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: ELONGATED COMB MADE OF A RAFT OF FOUR BLACKENED, COCONUT LEF MIDRIBS LASHED TOGETHER WITH COIR FIBERS. THE TOP HAS BEEN BROKEN OFF. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. OLD EXHIBIT LABEL READS, "COMB - FOUR LONG ROUND TEETH OF BLACK WOOD, SECURED SIDE BY SIDE WITH INTERWOVEN VEGETABLE FIBERS." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "COMB.-FOUR LONG ROUND TEETH OF BLACK WOOD, SECURED SIDE BY SIDE WITH INTERWOVEN VEGETABLE FIBERS. TOTAL LENGTH, 16 1/2 INS. LENGTH OF COVERED HANDLE, 9 3/4 INS. WIDTH, 1/2 INCH. FIJI ISLANDS, 1841. 3,194. U.S. EXPLOR. EXPEDITION, CAPT. CHAS. WILKES, U.S.N."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E3194-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Comb
physicalDescription: label: Length - Total
content: 41.9 cm
label: Length - Covered Handle
content: 24.76 cm
label: Width - Covered Handle
content: 1.3 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 42 cm