Bark Cloth For Turbans
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: Jun 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CAT. 4478, ORIG. 1498 PLUS. TURBANS OF SOFT, WHITE TAPA, VERY THIN. "SARA", BARK CLOTH OF FINE TEXTURE WORN BY MEN OF THE FIJI IS." THE ABOVE INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 1465 -1566 as ""Sara". Bark cloth of fine texture worn by men of the Fiji Islands as Turbans." For an example of such turbans in use, see plate in "NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION, CHARLES WILKES, 1845, VOL. III, AFTER P. 58.
label: Notes
content: This turban is wide and contained in one of the folds a paper label: "Feejee Turban No 25 Venua Levu June 15th 1840 (Box No 25 - (L)".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Vanua Levu Island, 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: E4478-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Turban
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 75 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.3 cm