Shell Lure
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: SHELL (CYPREA HISTRIONICA) LURE USED TO CATCH SQUID. ORIGINALLY TWO CATALOGUED, ONE MISSING, 1985. PREVIOUSLY CATALOGUED AS A SHELL NECK ORNAMENTS, THERE WERE ORIGINALLY TWO. PIILANI, WILLIAM AND MINNIE KAAWALOA, 1985: "CALLED A MAKAU HE'E, THE SHELL IS CALLED A LEHO. IT WAS USED TO CATCH SQUID." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975. CYPREA HISTRIONICA."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies 870 and 871 as "Shells used as bait in catching cuttle fish by the Hawaiian Islanders."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Jan 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3558-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 6.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.5 cm