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 SPEAR MADE OF UNDECORATED COCONUT WOOD WITH A FLATTENED, ROUNDED PADDLE-SHAPED HEAD AND WITH TWO CARVED PROJECTIONS AT THE OTHER END. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, AND RED AND WHITE PAPER TAG READS, "KINGSMILL IS. OAR SPEAR". PREVIOUSLY CATALOGUED AS KINGSMILL, BUT EXAMINED BY K. LUOMALA AND MARTHA COOPER AND LATER RECATALOGUED AS TONGAREVA OR PENRHYN IS. AS ORIGINALLY STATED BY TITIAN PEALE. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Penrhyn Atoll, Cook Islands, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongarevan
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: E3628-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 195.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 18.1 cm