Basalt Fragments
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: A PIECE OF GREY BASALT WHICH HAS THE REMAINS OF A PEALE NUMBER ON IT WITH "11" BARELY VISIBLE. HAS A PORTION OF AN ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THIS PIECE WAS FOUND IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STORAGE, AND IDENTIFIED BY ITS ORIGINAL NUMBER. THE OTHER FRAGMENTS HAVE APPARENTLY BEEN LOST.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ON WHICH CAPT. COOK WAS KILLED."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 909 - 911 as "Fragments of the rock on which Capt. [James] Cook the circumnavigator was killed at Kara-akeakoa [Kealakekua] bay, Island of Howai [Hawaii]." Cook was killed February 14, 1779.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Feb 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) Island / Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3511-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basalt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 11 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 16 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 11.5 cm