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: THROWING CLUB WITH CARVED HEAD AND FLARED PROXIMAL END WITH SUSPENSORY LUG. THE SHAFT OF THE CLUB HAS NARROW BANDS AND THE DISTAL END HAS TRIANGLES CARVED AROUND IT. THIS CLUB WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1989 [that exhibit dismantled in 2004.] EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LABELED SAMOA AND IN PEALE'S ORIG. CAT. AS ONE OF A GROUP OF CLUBS FROM SAMOA, BUT ACTUALLY THIS IS A TONGAN CLUB. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K.P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41.)"
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: Samoan
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: E3346-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 102 cm