Comb
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: COMB MADE OF A RAFT OF TWELVE, BLACKENED, COCONUT LEAF LASHED TOGETHER WITH COIR FIBER FORMING A DESIGN. OLD EXHIBIT LABEL READS, "COMB - EIGHT LONG SPINDLES OF BLACK WOOD, SECURED SIDE BY SIDE WITH THREADS OF VEGETABLE FIBER INTERWOVEN IN A SYMMETRICAL PATTERN...". EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSUEM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3186-87. 2 SPECIMENS EACH."
label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "COMB.-EIGHT LONG SPINDLES OF BLACK WOOD, SECURED SIDE BY SIDE WITH THREADS OF VEGETABLE FIBER INTERWOVEN IN A SYMMETRICAL PATTERN. LENGTH, 4 INS. WIDTH, 1 INCH. LENGTH OF COVERED HANDLE, 1 1/4 INS. FIJI ISLANDS, 1841. 3,187. U.S. EXPLOR. EXPEDITION, CAPT. CHAS. WILKES, U.S.N."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies as comb for the beard.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
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: E3187-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Comb
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 9.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 2.3 cm