Hair Pin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: In addition to the comb [E3194-0] described on the catalog card, there is also a hair pin [E3194-1] with a refreshed catalogue # of 3194. It is possible the hair pin should actually be another number, for example 3184?, but there is no Peale number or other proof of what the hair pin should be, so it is being kept as 3194 for now. Hair pin consists of a single blackened coconut leaf midrib wrapped at the top with fiber and surmounted by a cap of rolled pandanus, similar to other hair pins in the Wilkes collection (see for example 3192). It is noted about these types of hair pins, in describing 3184 on the catalogue card: "THE PURPOSE IS NOT TO PIN THE HAIR, BUT TO SCRATCH THE SCALP WITHOUT DISARRANGING THE MOP-LIKE COIFFURE."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3194-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hair Pin
physicalDescription: label: Length - Total
content: 41.9 cm
label: Length - Covered Handle
content: 24.76 cm
label: Width - Covered Handle
content: 1.3 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 42 cm