Necklace Of Cyprea Aurantia
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 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "2993-4. NECKLACES (2).-TWO LARGE ORANGE COWRIES, CYPREA AURANTIUM, PENDANT TO NECKLACE MADE OF CORDS OF PLAITED BLACK VEGETABLE FIBER, FRAPPED TOGETHER AT INTERVALS WITH WHITE STRIPS OF SAME. RARE, AND WORN ONLY BY CHIEF. LENGTH CORDS, 29 INS. LENGTH SHELLS, 3 1/2 TO 4 1/4 INS. HEIGHT, 2 1/4 AND 2 1/2 INS.FIJI ISLANDS, 1840. 2,993 AND 2,994. U.S. EXPLOR. EXPEDITION, CAPT. CHAS. WILKES, U.S.N."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 1577 to 1581 as "Orange cowries, worn as an ornament suspended from the neck by the male Fiji Islanders."
label: Notes
content: Smooth yellow-orange shell (Cyprea aurantia) with hole drilled in edge where it is attached to thick cord with three thin sennit braids. The thick cord is comprised of four thicknesses of braided black fiber and one length of twisted reddish fiber. Around these are wound natural-colored palm fibers spaced one cm. apart.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jul 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E2994-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Cords
content: 74 cm
label: Length - , Shells
content: 8.9 cm
label: Length - , Shells
content: 10.79 cm
label: Height - , Shells
content: 5.71 cm
label: Height - In
content: 6.3 cm