Adze
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jun 1875
label: Collection Date
content: 1874 to 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FROM A PIT EXCAVATED IN GRAVELS. TANGED QUADRANGULAR ADZE OF DARK, COARSE-GRAINED METAMORPHOSED GREYWACKE (OR GRIT). SPECIMEN TAPERS EVENLY IN OUTLINE FROM CUTTING EDGE TO POLL. GREATER LONGITUDINAL CONVEXITY OF POSTERIOR SURFACE THAN ANTERIOR. REDUCTION OF ANTERIOR SURFACE 58 MM FROM THE POLL TO GIVE A SEMI-CIRCULAR SECTIONED TANG. WEIGHT I LB. 14 1/2 OZS."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Pl. 6, c - e, and described p. 23-24 in Keyes, Ian W. 1967. New Zealand Artifacts from the United States "Transit of Venus Expedition," 1874-1875. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, 2 (2). https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810223.2.2.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wakatipu Lake, Frankton Arm, South Island (Te Waipounamu) / Otago, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori, Waitaha
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003939
label: USNM Number
content: E21232-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Weight - Object
content: 865 g
label: Length - Object
content: 21.6 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6.1 cm