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, HARDWOOD SPEAR WHICH IS ROUNDED AT THE BOTTOM AND SEVEN SETS OF CARVED BARBS AT THE TOP. NEAR THE CENTER OF THE SHAFT, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BARBS, IS A CARVED CYLINDRICAL PIECE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, AND A SMALL RED PAPER STARBURST STICKER. THIS SPEAR IN NO WAY RESEMBLES THE OTHER SPEARS WHICH ARE ATTRIBUTED TO CLERMONT DE TONNERRE, AND EVEN TITIAN PEALE WAS UNSURE OF ITS PROVENIENCE. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3612-7. COCOA NUT WOOD, HEAD POINTED, FLAT ON ONE SIDE, ANGULAR ON THE OTHER, LOWER PART OF HANDLE IS CYLINDRICAL."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E3616-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 241 cm