Fish 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: SHAFT OF A FISH SPEAR, WITH THE COCONUT FIBER WRAPPING AROUND THE DISTAL END, BUT THE POINTS HAS BEEN LOST. HAS A FRAGMENT OF AN ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THIS OBJECT HAD BEEN CATALOGUED AS FIJIAN, BUT IDENTIFIED BY MARTHA COOPER IN 1967 AS NIUE.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "14,288-14,300. LOCALITY RE-IDENTIFIED AS NIUE, MISS MARTHA COOPER--8/28/1967. OUT OF TOTAL OF 13 SPECIMENS IN SERIES, 7 LOCATED BY CATALOGUE NOS., 3 OTHERS PRESUMABLY LACKING NOS. AS FOUND, REMAINING 3 MISSING ALTOGETHER; CAT. NOS. WITHOUT CORRESPONDING SPECIMENS ARE; 14,288, 14,289, 14,290, 14,292, 14,294 AND 14,296. "
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Niue, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Niuean
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E14300-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 131 cm