Barracuda-Jaw Knife
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: PORTION OF A BARRACUDA JAW WITH MOST OF THE TEETH AND FIVE DRILLED HOLES IN THE FLAT PART OF THE JAW THROUGH WHICH IS LACED A COCONUT FIBER CORD. THE CORD IS LOOPED LIKE A HANDLE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: KENNETH P. EMORY, "MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO," 1975, ILLUSTRATION P. 133, FIG. 110B.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PEALE CATALOG: "FISHES JAW, USED AS A KNIFE BY THE NATIVES OF DISAPPOINTMENT IS." IS A JAW WITH 5 HOLES BORED AND SENNIT STRING."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Disappointment Islands, 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: E3670-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 21.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.5 cm