Dagger
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Edward Very
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: WOODEN DAGGER WITH TWO ROWS OF SHARKS TEETH POINTS INSET INTO GROOVES ON EITHER SIDE. THE POINTS ARE LASHED THROUGH DRILLED HOLES IN THE TEETH AND SHAFT BY MEANS OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. THERE IS A HOLE BELOW THE SHARKS TEETH ROWS USED FOR A CORD HANDLE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, AND WRITTEN ON HANDLE, "WORN BY WOMEN.EX EX E. VERY". ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS NEW ZEALAND, BUT IDENTIFIED AS GILBERTESE BY S.H. RIESENBERG, 1962. LENT TO CIVIL HISTORY, MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY, 3/9/67, RETURNED 1984. THIS OBJECT WAS RECATALOGUED AS 3697-A & 3697-B HOWEVER, THERE IS ONLY ONE OBJECT SO IT WILL RETURN TO BEING # 3697. THIS CONFUSION MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY THE LONG LOAN PERIOD TO CIVIL HISTORY.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kiribati, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Gilbertese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3697-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dagger
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 20 cm