Neck Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1909
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Nathaniel B. Emerson
label: Donor Name
content: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""Lei [niho] palaoa. A neck ornament worn only by kings, chiefs and people of high rank; suspended from the neck after the manner of the collar and evidently of the order of the garter. It is a whale tooth carved with consummate art, and suspended from a heavy mass of human hair skilfully plaited into numerous fine cords. Such fine specimens as this are very rare and hardly to be found outside of museums.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Apr 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Polynesian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 050958
label: USNM Number
content: E258019-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace