Shell (Conus) For The Ear
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: Peale catalogue identifies this object as "Ornaments worn in the slit lobes of their ears by the Fiji Islanders."
label: Notes
content: Part of one cone shaped shell, white with brown spotting near opening. Bottom flat with a 1 cm. hole in the middle. Per Stephanie Caffarel, this is an ear ornament, "saunidaliga", made from a "cava" (Conus marmoreus) shell.
label: Notes
content: Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies this as Conus shell. The word Conus was mistranscribed on the catalogue card as cones.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3002-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ear Ornament
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 6 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 5.5 cm
label: Circumference - Object
content: 20 cm