Human hair belt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1961
label: Collection Date
content: 1933
name: label: Collector
content: Earle S. Wallace
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Earle S. Wallace
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Many thin flat braids of black hair bound together in loops at either end by one braid wrapped around the others. Collector says that he brought this belt made of human hair (enemy and own) which belonged to an old chief Polalogi [sic] of Niue Islands, and that this belt was worn at war dances and meetings of chiefs and is a Kafa. [See] also Bishop Museum Bulletin No. 32 plate VI where it is also called a kafa."
label: Notes
content: In 2019, Dr. Hilke Thode-Arora (Museum Fünf Kontinente) asked "a very reliable and knowledgeable" Niuean friend about "old chief Polalogi" referenced on the card and found out that "his actual name is Palalagi, which is still a surname found among Niueans, and he was from the village of Tuapa"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Niue, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 233630
label: USNM Number
content: E399804-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt