Hafted Adze
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: HAFTED BASALT ADZE ATTACHED TO A WOODEN HANDLE. THE ADZE IS LASHED TO THE WOODEN HANDLE BY MEANS OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD WITH COCONUT BAST ACTING AS A CUSHION BETWEEN THE CORD AND STONE. A NOTE ON THE OLD CATALOGUE CARD IDENTIFIES THESE AS TAHITIAN, SIGNED DW (?), 1961. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO WRITING ON HANDLE, MOSTLY ILLEGIBLE, "---A W -51 (?)".
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "2898-99. THESE ADZES ARE CLEARLY TAHITIAN IN EVERY WAY (AND FAR RARER THAN FIJIAN). 18 MAY 1961. DW.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 1822 and 1823 as "Stone adzes formerly used in the construction of canoes, houses &c [etc.], by the Fiji Islanders.
label: Notes
content: Basalt adze head lashed to wooden handle with coconut fiber cord.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Feb 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tahiti (not certain), Society Islands (not certain), Fiji (not certain) / France (not certain), Melanesia (not certain) / Polynesia (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian (?)
label: Culture
content: Tahitian (?)
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: E2898-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 46 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 15.2 cm