Eel-Jaw Knife / Scraper
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: PORTION OF AN EEL JAW WITH SOME TEETH WHICH ARE LASHED BY MEANS OF TWISTED COCONUT FIBER CORD TO A SHORT WOODEN STICK WITH PORTIONS OF THE BARK STILL REMAINING. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: FOR A NEARLY IDENTICAL SPECIMEN SEE, KENNETH P. EMORY, "MATERIAL CULTURE OF OF THE TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO," 1975, ILLUSTRATION P. 133, FIG. 111A; SEE ALSO THE "NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION," 1838-1842. THIS PIECE MAY BE THE POINT OF A SPEAR, THE ILLUSTRATION IN THE WILKES NARRATIVE OF TWO NAPUKA MEN CARRYING SPEARS APPEARS TO SHOW ONE OF THE SPEARS WITH THIS TYPE OF POINT. SEE "NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION," 1838-1842, VOL. I, P. 334.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SCRAPER? THATCH-CUTTER? WOODEN STICK UNTO WHICH IS LASHED WITH BRAIDED CORD, THE JAW OF A FISH (BARRACUDA?). PEALE CATALOG: "681 TO 691, SPEARS USED BY THE NATIVES OF CLERMONT TONNERE." BUT CANNOT BE A SPEAR. HIROA (BISHOP BULL. 200, FIG. 285) ILLUSTRATES A SIMILAR SPECIMEN FROM KAPINGAMARANGI AS A THATCH-CUTTER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3671-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 24.6 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 2 cm