Path-Splinters (One Case)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Oct 1893
name: label: Collector
content: Prof Orator F. Cook Jr.
label: Donor Name
content: Prof Orator F. Cook Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BLACK WICKER CASE. BAMBOO SPLINTERS WITH BURNT ENDS. PUT IN PATH FOR ENEMY."
label: Notes
content: Otis Mason, in "The Origins of Invention: A Study of Industry Among Primitive Peoples" (1896), describes how this type of weapon is used: "...[barefootedness] has given rise in Africa, and in Borneo as well, to a peculiar weapon, the foot-path splinter, small splints of cane sharpened, cut nearly in two, and stuck in the trail or public highway, a kind of aboriginal caltrop..." (p 315).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 25
place: label: Place
content: Liberia, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Gola
label: Culture
content: Gola
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027475
label: USNM Number
content: E168018-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Path Splinter