Spear
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, FLATTENED WOOD SHAFT, OCTAGONAL IN CROSS SECTION, WITH A SPLIT SOCKET END BOUND WITH BRAIDED SINEW. MULTI-BARBED, BONE POINT BOUND TO SOCKET END WITH SINEW. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: BAE BULLETIN 143, HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS, COOPER, PP. 206-7.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FLATTENED WOOD SHAFT, OCTAGONAL ON CROSS SECTION, INTO A GROOVE IN ONE SIDE OF THE END OF WHICH A UNILATTERLY BARBED BONE POINT IS BOUND WITH A STRIP OF SINEW."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies as a fish spear.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Jun 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tierra Del Fuego, Chile, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yahgan (Yagán, Yámana) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5057-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 307 cm