Hafted Stone 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: ROUGHLY FLAKED BASALT ADZE WHICH IS HAFTED TO A WOODEN HANDLE BY MEANS OF TWISTED AND BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. THE HANDLE IS SPLIT AND BROKEN OFF, AND HAS A WRAPPING OF COCONUT FIBER CORD AS REINFORCEMENT. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: KENNETH P. EMORY, "MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO," P. 112, ILLUS. P. 90. THE FINDING OF THIS ADZE IS MENTIONED IN CHARLES PICKERING, U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION - "THE RACES OF MAN," 1848, P. 55-56.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PEALE CATALOG: "STONE ADZE FOUND ON HONDEN ISLAND, THE EASTERNMOST OF THE PAUMOTU GROUP, NOW UNINHABITED." BRIGHAM SHOWS HONDEN AS STILL UNINHABITED. ADZ TYPE LOOKS TAHITIAN."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jan 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pukapuka Island, 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: E3731-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 25 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 22 cm