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, NARROW, FLAT WOODEN SPEAR, WITH ONE POINTED END WHICH IS WRAPPED WITH STRIPS OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE PANDANUS. THE SPEAR IS VERY MUCH THE SHAPE OF THE BOUGAINVILLE BOWS, BUT IT IS MUCH LARGER. THE WOOD AT ONE END IS VERY MUCH DETERIORATED. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LOCALITY TENTATIVELY RE-IDENTIFIED AS BOUGAINVILLE, MISS MARTHA COOPER--8/28/67."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 616 as "Spear from Bogainville Island?"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bougainville Island, North Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Melanesian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3781-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 278 cm