War Spear
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: LONG SPEAR WITH ELABORATELY CARVED, INCISED AND DECORATED POINT OF A HARDER WOOD WHICH IS SENT INTO A SHAFT AND HAFTED BY MEANS OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. ORANGE AND BLUISH-GREEN FEATHERS ARE VISIBLE BENEATH THE CORD. THIS OBJECT HAD BEEN CATALOGUED AS FIJIAN, BUT IDENTIFIED BY MARTHA COOPER IN 1967 AS NIUE. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "14,288-14,300. LOCALITY RE-IDENTIFIED AS NIUE, MISS MARTHA COOPER--8/28/1967. OUT OF TOTAL OF 13 SPECIMENS IN SERIES, 7 LOCATED BY CATALOGUE NOS., 3 OTHERS PRESUMABLY LACKING NOS. AS FOUND, REMAINING 3 MISSING ALTOGETHER; CAT. NOS. WITHOUT CORRESPONDING SPECIMENS ARE; 14,288, 14,289, 14,290, 14,292, 14,294 AND 14,296. "
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Niue, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Niuean
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E14295-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 296.5 cm