Shark Tooth Ear Pendant
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: ONE SHARK'S TOOTH W/ A SMALL HOLE DRILLED AT THE WIDEST PART. THERE IS A STRING THROUGH IT, WHICH IS AN EXHIBIT PROP, PER THE HALL 8, CASE 6 EXHIBIT BOOK. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. AN OLD EXHIBIT LABEL READS, "NECKLACE: PIECE OF NARROW BROWN RIBBON 2' LONG WITH TWO SHARKS TEETH." THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TWO NECKLACES BEAR NO. 3829, APPARENTLY. ONE (ORIG. 505) IS A PAIR OF STRUNG SHARK'S TEETH, FROM NEW ZEALAND. NOW [in 1963] ON EXHIBIT, HALL 8. THE OTHER (ORIG. 1864), NOT SEEN, IS DESCRIBED IN PEALE'S CATALOG AS OF NAUTILUS SHELL, & IS SAMOAN."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies this object under # 505 as "Ear ornament made of a sharks tooth also called "Wakakai" by the natives of New Zealand." D.R. Simmons, Curator, Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, 1973, said that wakakai = food bowl.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) / Bay of Islands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3829-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Earring
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 3.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 2.25 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 3.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 2.25 cm