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: BATON SHAPED CLUB WHICH IS COVERED WITH INTRICATELY CARVED GEOMETRIC DESIGNS, TYPICAL OF TONGAN DECORATIVE CARVING, LIKELY COLLECTED IN SAMOA. THE PROXIMAL END HAS A CARVED SUSPENSORY LUG. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO WRITING READ UNDER ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, "PORPOISE [brig USS Porpoise was one of the ships used on the U.S. Exploring Expedition] NO. 8, JUNE 1840 VIA BOSTON [SHIP]". THIS OBJECT WAS IDENTIFIED AS TONGAN BY CURATOR SAUL RIESENBERG, 1965.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BATON TYPE. ORIGINALLY CATALOGED BY PEALE AS SAMOA BUT IS TONGAN IN APPEARENCE (RIESENBERG 7/7/65)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain) / Tonga (not certain), Polynesia (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
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: E3405-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 65.6 cm
label: Diameter - Head
content: 5 cm
label: Diameter - Base
content: 3 cm