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 WITH STRANDS OF TWISTED AND BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER WOUND AND TIED TO FORM A WHISK. THE END OF THE HANDLE WHICH IS NOT ATTACHED TO THE FIBERS IS FLATTENED AND SPATULATE IN FORM WITH SMALL HOLE IN THE CENTER FOR A SUSPENSION CORD. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SPATULATE HANDLE, MAX. WIDTH 1". (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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
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: E3411-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fly Whisk
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 79 cm
label: Length - Handle
content: 44 cm