Stone Chisel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "8/28/67 THERE IS DOUBT THAT THIS IS A MISSOURI RIVER AREA SPECIMEN SINCE WILKES EX. EX. MATERIALS FROM VARIOUS AREAS WERE BEING CATALOGED ON THE SAME DAY. IT IS NOT UNLIKELY THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY AN OCEANIC SPECIMEN COLLECTED BY WILKES. GEP. "
label: Notes
content: ARTIFACT HAS WRITTEN ON IT: "MARQUESAS ISLANDS EX EX U.S. CAPT. WILKES USN."
label: Notes
content: This specimen is listed in the original catalog ledger as collected by the War Department with a locality of Missouri River valley. However, it appears to be of Oceanic rather than North American origin. Specimens from the Wilkes U.S. Exploring Expedition and the National Institute were received at the same time as the War Department collection. This specimen may be from the Wilkes expedition or the National Institute and was assigned to the War Department in error, though no Peale number from the Wilkes collection has been identified for this artifact. Almost all materials from the War Department were arbitrarily listed as from the Missouri River valley.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Marquesas Islands (not certain), France (not certain), Polynesia (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Indian (?)
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: E2626-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Chisel