Wooden Handle Fly Whisk
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: CARVED WOODEN HANDLE WHICH IS FLARED QUITE A LOT AT ONE END, AND MUCH NARROWER AT THE END WHICH IS ATTACHEDTO THE COCONUT FIBER WHISK. THE COCONUT FIBER IS BRAIDED AT THE ATTACHMENT TO THE WOODEN HANDLE, AND FROM THERE THE FIBERS EXTEND FREELY. THE ORIGINAL NUMBER WAS REMOVED, BUT A LIGHT SPOT REMAINS. THIS FLY WHISK WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1989 [that exhibit dismantled in 2004].
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3578-81. WOOD HANDLES." FROM CARD: "(THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E3581-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fly Whisk
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 70 cm
label: Length - Handle
content: 34 cm