Carved Wooden Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: CARVED WOODEN FEMALE FIGURE, WITH CARVED TATTOO DESIGNS ON FACE, AND INLAID ABALONE EYES. ACCORDING TO THE OLD CATALOGUE CARD, A PAPER LABEL ORIGINALLY READ "GOD'S PEG, NEW ZEALAND FROM OVER THE DOOR OF A NATIVE HOUSE AT THE BAY OF ISLANDS." MARKS: REMAINDER OF PAPER LABEL " - NEW - ". EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89. THIS OBJECT WAS FORMERLY ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H. PUBLICATION: "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," BY VIOLA AND MARGOLIS, S.I. PRESS, 1985, ILLUSTRATED P. 133.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "AN OLD LABEL ON THIS FIGURE READS AS FOLLOWS: "GOD-S PEG, NEW ZEALAND FROM OVER THE DOOR OF A NATIVE HOUSE AT THE BAY OF ISLANDS."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue calls # 498 "Idol (Atua) obtained at the Bay of Islands." Atua = god, deity, in Maori and some other Polynesian and Micronesian languages.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Feb 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: E3824-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 27.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 9.5 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 5.5 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 28.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 10.1 cm