Bone Breastplate
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Oct 1874
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Major William Rich
label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Prof Spencer F. Baird
notes: label: Notes
content: Nearly identical to E3655, also collected by William Rich, which Jane Walsh identified as a whalebone breast plate suspended on a necklace of coconut shell beads, strung on a twisted coconut fiber cord. The whale bone has two small holes drilled at the top where the necklace is attached.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Oct 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kiribati Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00057
label: USNM Number
content: E15099-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Breast Plate