War Club
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: SHORT HAND CLUB, PROXIMAL END IS ROUNDED IN TO A BALL HEAD AND SMOOTHED. THE DISTAL END HAS A CARVED SUSPENSORY LUG. THERE SEEMS TO BE NO INCISING OR OTHER DECORATION. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO WRITTEN ON CLUB, "PORPOISE [brig USS Porpoise was one of the ships used on the U.S. Exploring Expedition] JUNE 1840...VIA BOSTON [SHIP]" THIS CLUB IS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1989. [exhibit dismantled in 2004].
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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: E3407-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 50.5 cm
label: Diameter - Club Head
content: 9 cm