Hafted Shell Adze
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: CAMEO-SHELL ADZ HAFTED TO INVERTED L-SHAPED WOODEN HANDLE BY MEANS OF TWISTED COCONUT FIBER CORD. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1989 [exhibit dismantled in 2004].
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A RIGHT-ANGLE WOODEN HANDLE WITH A SHELL BLADE 1" WIDE HAFTED IN, BOUND WITH BRAIDED CORD."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Napuka Island, Disappointment Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
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: E3690-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 32 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 25 cm