Native Cloth, Turban
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: FROM CARD: "4388-4402: CAT. 4399 TURBAN OF SOFT WHITE TAPA, VERY THIN. CASE 19." THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN NMNH PACIFIC CULTURES EXHIBIT HALL 8, CASE 40, FROM 1962 - 2005. EXHIBIT LABEL: "CHIEF'S TURBAN. MADE OF GAUZELIKE FINE WHITE TAPA."
label: Notes
content: USNM REGISTRAR DISTRIBUTION FILES DATA INDICATES AN OBJECT WITH THIS NUMBER WENT TO PEABODY MUSEUM, HARVARD, MASS. 1867. HOWEVER THERE IS STILL AN OBJECT IN THE COLLECTIONS WITH THIS NUMBER.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 1465 -1566 as ""Sara". Bark cloth of fine texture worn by men of the Fiji Islands as Turbans." For an example of such turbans in use, see plate in "NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION, CHARLES WILKES, 1845, VOL. III, AFTER P. 58.
label: Notes
content: White bark cloth turban, pleated with fringes at both ends. Undecorated. Catalogue number (4399) and "Fiji Isl" and "Capt. C. Wilkes U.S.N." written on it in black ink.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Jul 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E4399-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Turban
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 88 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 25.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 2 cm