Comb
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Nov 1897
label: Collection Date
content: 1890 - 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Henry Adams
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SPLINTS OF MIDRIB OF PALM LEAVES, WORKED WITH BLUE BEADS AND WINDINGS OF VERY FINE FIBER. DEP. IN S.I. BY MRS. EUGENIA PHILLIPS AND P. LEE PHILLIPS."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 18, p. 29 in Kaeppler, Adrienne, 2017, "John Lafarge, A contemporary artist in Samoa, 1890-1891," Pacific Arts, NS 16 (2). On p. 28 of the same publication, it is noted that the blue glass beads decorating this comb were identified by Laurie Burgess in 2016 as "... drawn (as opposed to wound beads), heat-rounded, glass beads that were primarily used for embroidery or beadwork and probably came from Venice ...".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 032873
label: USNM Number
content: E178618-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Comb