"Patu" Or Stone Club
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jun 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Kershner
label: Collector
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PATU OF GREY-GREEN SCHIST, APPROACHING THE OKEWA OF BILLHOOK, BIRD-FORM TYPE OF PATU TYPICAL OF THE MORIORI CULTURE OF THE CHATHAM ISLANDS. DISTAL END GRADES IN SMOOTH CURVE INTO LONGITUDINAL EDGE TO GIVE UNSYMETRICAL OUTLINE. SURFACE ROUGHLY GROUND. WEIGHT: 3 LBS 3 OZS. INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Pl. 8, h, and described p. 26 - 27 in Keyes, Ian W. 1967. New Zealand Artifacts from the United States "Transit of Venus Expedition," 1874-1875. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, 2 (2). https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810223.2.2.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chatham Island (Rēkohu, Wharekauri), Chatham Islands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Moriori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003939
label: USNM Number
content: E20254-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club
physicalDescription: label: Weight - Object
content: 1.5 kg
label: Length - Object
content: 28.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 11.5 cm