Human hair necklace, "Lei Niho Palaoa"
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: NECKLACE OF BRAIDED STRANDS OF HUMAN HAIR, BOUND TOGETHER IN BUNCHES TIED, BY MEANS OF "OLONA" FIBER CORDS, AROUND THE NECK. THE CENTRAL ORNAMENT IS CARVED FROM WALUS IVORY. OLD EXHIBIT LABEL (CA. 1870'S) READS, "NECKLACE (PELAVA) SMALL CORDS OF PLAITED HUMAN HAIR, BOUND IN LARGE BUNCHES; ENDS FITTED WITH CORDS FOR TYING AROUND NECK, AND ORNAMENTED AT MIDDLE WITH A CARVED TUSK OF WALRUS, ROSMARUS COOKII, CUT SOMEWHAT IN SHAPE OF FIGURE 5. LENGTH, 20 INS. LENGTH OF IVORY, 4 1/4 INS. DIAM. CORD, 2 1/2 INS. HILO, HAWAII, SANDWICH ISLANDS, 1840. U. S. EXPLOR. EXPEDITION, CAPT. CHAS WILKES, USN." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. RETURNED TO PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1989 [that exhibit dismantled in 2004]
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OF BRAIDED HUMAN HAIR AND A SEA-HORSE [sic] TOOTH." SMALL CORDS OF PLAITED HUMAN HAIR, BOUND IN LARGE BUNCHES; ENDS FITTED WITH CORDS OF TYING AROUND NECK, AND ORNAMENTED AT THE MIDDLE WITH A CARVED TUSK OF WALRUS, ROSMARUS COOKII. (LEI NIHO PALAOA). LOANED TO BISHOP MUSEUM 1/23/78. RETURNED FROM BISHOP MUSEUM 2/15/78. 3565 LOANED TO RENWICK 2/4/82. RETURNED 1983 ILLUS.: P. 209. PL. 262, CELEBRATIONS CATALOGUE, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1982."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Aug 2023
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: E3565-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 78 cm
label: Width - Ornament
content: 11 cm
label: Unknown - Ornament
content: 3.5 cm