War Staff
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 STRAIGHT WOODEN STAFF WHICH IS SURMOUNTED BY A WOVEN VEGETABLE FIBER COVER W/ A GEOMETRIC DESIGN DONE IN A DARKER FIBER. CURLED LOCKS OF HUMAN HAIR ARE ATTACHED TOTHE TOP OF THE FIBER COVER. THIS OBJECT IS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., AND IT WAS REMOVED AND EXHIBITED IN "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. THE STAFF HAS BEEN RETURNED TO PERMANENT EXHIBIT, 1989 [exhibit dismantled in 2004].
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3728 (ORIG.741) IS A WAR STAFF, NOT A CLUB."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 741 as "War staff carried by the chiefs of the Marquesas Islands."
label: Notes
content: On p. 18 of National Institute for the Promotion of Science, Washington, D.C. A Popular Catalogue of the Extraordinary Curiosities In the National Institute, Arranged In the Building Belonging to the Patent Office. Washington: A. Hunter, 1855, Peale # 741 is identified as "War staff carried by one of the principal chiefs."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Jun 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Marquesas Islands, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Marquesan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3728-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Staff
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 160.5 cm
label: Width - At Base
content: 5.5 cm