Fish 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 SHAFT WITH ONE PRONG CARVED FROM A HARDER WOOD AND HAFTED TO THE SHAFT BY MEANS OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER. BENEATH THE FIBER CAN BE SEEN SOME TAPA OR BARK CLOTH & SOME RED & GREEN FEATHERS. HAS LIGHT SPOT WHERE ORIGINAL PEALE TAG WAS. THIS OBJECT HAD BEEN CATALOGUED AS FIJIAN, BUT IDENTIFIED BY MARTHA COOPER IN 1967 AS NIUE. FROM CARD: "LOCALITY RE-IDENTIFIED AS NUIE, MISS MARTHA COOPER--8/28/1967."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Niue, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Niuean
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E14301-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 270 cm