Whale Tooth For Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 May 1900
name: label: Donor Name
content: Canterbury Museum, New Zealand
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "WHALE'S TOOTH GROUND DOWN TO SHARP POINT DRILLED AT BASE FOR ASSEMBLING ON NECKLACE. THOUGH THIS CAME TO THE MUSEUM WITH A LABEL ON IT FROM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, BY REFERENCE TO "SAMOAN MATERIAL CULTURE", BY PETER BUCK, BISHOP MUSEUM BULLETIN 75, PP.53,B AND 54, D,2, AND PP.629-30. IT APPEARS VERY LIKELY THAT IS IT FROM SAMOA. -- R. ELDER, 1-22-54. ALSO REFER TO CAT. NOS. 359,178-9. "
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Aug 2023
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: 036389
label: USNM Number
content: E205285-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tooth