Fly Whisk
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: LONG, NARROW, CARVED WOODEN HANDLE WITH ONLY A FEW STRANDS OF TWISTED AND PLAITED COCONUT FIBER WHISK. THE COCONUT FIBER IS WOUND AROUND ONE END OF THE WOODEN HANDLE. THE OTHER END OF THE HANDLE IS SLIGHTLY FLARED WITH A SMALL CARVED LUG WITH A HOLE IN IT FOR A SUSPENSION CORD. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: ROM CARD: "3410-11. CAT. 3410, ORIG. 1068. FLY WHISK. SAMOA. 29.5" HANDLE, 19" BRUSH. LUG IN HANDLE. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 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: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3410-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fly Whisk
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Handle
content: 74.9 cm
label: Unknown - Brush
content: 48 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 104 cm
label: Length - Handle
content: 58 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.5 cm