Shell Lure
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: SHELL (CYPREA TIGRIS) - YOUNG) LURE WITH SMALL HOLE DRILLED AT ONE END, ANOTHER AT THE OPPOSITE WITH A SMALL PIECE OF TWINE TIED THROUGH IT. THE SHELL IS AN ORANGE AND WHITE COLOR. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PREVIOUSLY CATALOGUED AS A SHELL NECK ORNAMENT. PIILANI, MINNIE AND WILLIAM KAAWALOA, 1985: "THIS ... IS SUED TO CATCH SQUID AND OCTOPUS. ... CALLED A MAKAU HE'E. THE SHELL ITSELF IS CALLED A LEHO. ... THE SQUID IS LURED TO THE HOOK BY THE COLOR OF THE SHELL." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CYPREA TIGRIS (YOUNG)."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies 869 as one of a number of "Shells used as bait in catching cuttle fish by the Hawaiian Islanders."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Mar 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3559-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.5 cm