Object Details
- Donor Name
- United States Exploring Expedition
- NECKLACE OF BRAIDED STRANDS OF HUMAN HAIR, BOUND TOGETHER IN BUNCHES TIED, BY MEANS OF "OLONA" FIBER CORDS, AROUND THE NECK. THE CENTRAL ORNAMENT IS CARVED FROM WALUS IVORY. OLD EXHIBIT LABEL (CA. 1870'S) READS, "NECKLACE (PELAVA) SMALL CORDS OF PLAITED HUMAN HAIR, BOUND IN LARGE BUNCHES; ENDS FITTED WITH CORDS FOR TYING AROUND NECK, AND ORNAMENTED AT MIDDLE WITH A CARVED TUSK OF WALRUS, ROSMARUS COOKII, CUT SOMEWHAT IN SHAPE OF FIGURE 5. LENGTH, 20 INS. LENGTH OF IVORY, 4 1/4 INS. DIAM. CORD, 2 1/2 INS. HILO, HAWAII, SANDWICH ISLANDS, 1840. U. S. EXPLOR. EXPEDITION, CAPT. CHAS WILKES, USN." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. RETURNED TO PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1989 [that exhibit dismantled in 2004]
- FROM CARD: "OF BRAIDED HUMAN HAIR AND A SEA-HORSE [sic] TOOTH." SMALL CORDS OF PLAITED HUMAN HAIR, BOUND IN LARGE BUNCHES; ENDS FITTED WITH CORDS OF TYING AROUND NECK, AND ORNAMENTED AT THE MIDDLE WITH A CARVED TUSK OF WALRUS, ROSMARUS COOKII. (LEI NIHO PALAOA). LOANED TO BISHOP MUSEUM 1/23/78. RETURNED FROM BISHOP MUSEUM 2/15/78. 3565 LOANED TO RENWICK 2/4/82. RETURNED 1983 ILLUS.: P. 209. PL. 262, CELEBRATIONS CATALOGUE, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1982."
- Record Last Modified
- 30 Aug 2023
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
- Accession Date
- 1858
- Collection Date
- 1838 to 1842
- Accession Number
- 66A00050
- USNM Number
- E3565-0
- Object Type
- Necklace
- Length - Object
- 78 cm
- Width - Ornament
- 11 cm
- Unknown - Ornament
- 3.5 cm
- Place
- Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8403894
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3e8b37ce6-721e-400d-8bea-f1ac9b32c8e1
