Village Maid's Headdress and Shell Band
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: Col. Albert B. Steinberger
notes: label: Notes
content: Listed in ledger book and in card as catalog number 13,643 and 1/2. Changed this to E13643A to clarify that this is a separate catalog number.
label: Notes
content: From card: "The shells used for decoration on these items are the cut down portions of the adult Pearly Nautilus which lives at 50 to 100 fathoms down in parts of the Pacific area, and so they are relatively rare in collections. When this went on display some shells were missing and could not be duplicated from available materials, so 4 were taken from Cat. No. 130779 to be used on this headdress." As of 2006, the curator, Adrienne Kaeppler, has decided that the 4 shells removed from E130779 and attached to E13643A for exhibition purposes should be left attached to 13643A.
label: Notes
content: Per Regina Meredith of American Samoa, siapo (tapa) maker, artist, and teacher, 7-29-2013, the hair used on this headdress is human hair.
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003313
label: USNM Number
content: E13643A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress