Ivory Handled Fly Whisk
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Titian R. Peale
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: CARVED IVORY HANDLE WHICH HAS A SMALL LUG AT THE END AND ALSO AT THE CONNECTION WITH THE BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER WHISK. THE COCONUT FIBER IS BRAIDED ONLY AT THE POINT OF ATTACHMENT TO THE WOODEN HANDLE, AFTER 2.5 CM. THE FIBERS EXTEND FREELY. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO PAPER WRAPPED AROUND HANDLE AND TIED BY A CORD READS, "T.R. PEALE (BLACK TRUNK), TONGA-TABOU, MAY 1840." EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3576-7. BONE HANDLES." FROM CARD: IVORY HANDLE. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated Fig. 17.4a, p. 264 and discussed p. 262-263 in Kaeppler, Adrienne L. 2019. "A Kato Mosi Kaka and other Treasures from Tonga from the US Exploring Expedition." In Collecting and Provenance: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Milosch, Jane and Pearce, Nick, editors. 257–268. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Identified as fue kafa.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tongatapu Group, Tonga, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3577-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fly Whisk
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 68.5 cm
label: Length - Handle
content: 31.5 cm