Coconut Shell Cups
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: TWO COCONUT SHELL CUPS WHICH HAVE BEEN BROKEN AND REPAIRED WITH COCONUT FIBER CORD LASHING. THE CUPS ARE USED IN A INDOORS GAME CALLED "LAFOGA TUPE" OR "'AU LAFO" WHICH IS PLAYED ON A MAT. THE CUP IS USED TO HOLD THE GAME PIECES WHICH ARE POLISHED & INLAID COCONUT SHELL DISKS. ONE CUP & FOUR DISKS (SEE #3468) MAKES A SET. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. APPARENTLY THE TWO COCONUT SHELL CUPS & EIGHT COCONUT SHELL DISKS ASSOCIATED WITH ORIGINAL PEALE #1087 WERE DIVIDED & CATALOGUED SEPARATELY UPON ENTERING THE S.I. COLLECTIONS. THEREFORE, TWO CUPS HAVE S.I. CATALOGUE #3467, AND THE EIGHT DISKS HAVE THE S.I. CATALOGUE #3468. PUBLICATION: SEE MARTIN ORANS AND DANIEL POUESI, "LAFOGA TUPE, AN ETHNO-HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF A POLYNESIAN GAME," ANTHROPOS 82.1987: 35-45; AND P.H. BUCK,"SAMOAN MATERIAL CULTURE," 1930, BISHOP MUSEUM, BULLETIN 75.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3467-8. #3467 CONTAINS 2 SPECIMENS; NOT FOUND."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3467-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game Cup
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 13.5 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 12.5 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 4 cm