Round Wooden Shield
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: FROM CARD: "HEAVY THICK WOOD, WITH BAMBOO STRIP AROUND THE EDGE. PAINTED BLACK ON THE FACE."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue describes # 67 as "Wooden shield, from the Sooloo [Sulu] Islands [Philippines]."
label: Notes
content: Circular shield, carved from one piece of wood with two handles on concave side and decorate, inserted wooden "knob" on convex side. Shield is rimmed by a strip of bent, bamboolike wood that is attached with wooden pegs. Wood stained brown on concave side, painted black on convex side. Has original Peale # label.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sulu Islands, Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Filipino
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3898-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 91 cm