Wooden Comb
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jun 1875
label: Collection Date
content: 1874 to 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PRESENTED TO EXPED. FROM PRIVATE COLLECTION. WOODEN COMB OF 24 INDIVIDUALLY LASHED TEETH. TEETH ARE HELD IN POSITION BETWEEN TWO THIN MEDIALLY PLACED SPLINTS OF WOOD OVER WHICH THE LASHING IS TWINED. SPECIMEN DOES NOT CONFORM TO USUAL POLYNESIAN STYLE OF ORNAMENTAL COMB; MAY POSSIBLY BE UTILITARIAN SPECIMEN ONLY. LOANED TO MHT - 4/24/68. RETURNED 7/29/68. INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Pl. 7, d, and described p. 25 in Keyes, Ian W. 1967. New Zealand Artifacts from the United States "Transit of Venus Expedition," 1874-1875. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, 2 (2). https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810223.2.2.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Riverton, South Island (Te Waipounamu) / Southland, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003939
label: USNM Number
content: E21248-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Comb
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 6.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 4.8 cm