Chief's Staff "Taiaha"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: CARVED WOODEN STAFF WITH A CARVED, INCISED AND ABALONE INLAID SPEAR-LIKE POINT. THE "TAIAHA" IS DECORATED WITH A COLLAR MADE OF VEGETABLE FIBER & GREYISH DOG HAIR. EXAMINED BY D.R. SIMMONS 1974, IDENTIFIED AS "TAIAHA." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, REMOVED 1985.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "[FROM PEALE CATALOGUE:] WAR STAFF (TOKOTOKO) CARRIED BY CHIEFS OF NEW ZEALAND". D. R. SIMMONS: TAIAHA DECORATED WITH DOG HAIR. STYLE OF CARVING WOULD SUGGEST TARANAKI. NOV. 1974." Additional notes from D.R. Simmons, Curator, Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, 1973: "Tokotoko = walking stick or staff. The objects are used this way but are two handed clubs called in the North "hani" and further south "taiaha"."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Nov 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) / Bay of Islands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3783-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Staff
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 120 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.5 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 122.2 cm