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: SHORT "COCONUT STALK" CLUB WITH A DIAMOND SHAPE CROSS SECTION. THE WAR CLUB IS DECORATED WITH INCISED GEOMETRIC DECORATIONS COVERING THE ENTIRE CLUB. THERE ARE ALSO TWO SMALL HUMAN FIGURES CARVED IN RELIEF. THE DECORATIVE CARVING IS TYPICALLY TONGAN. A TAG ATTACHED TO THE BASE READS, "1237". THIS CLUB WAS REMOVED FROM PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1985. THE CATALOGUE NUMBER HAD BEEN ERRONEOUSLY WRITTEN 13197 (THIS WAS DUE TO A MISREADING OF THE ORIGINAL PEALE NUMBER 1237). THE CLUB HAD THEN BEEN ASSIGNED A TEMPORARY NUMBER OF T-15309, WHICH HAS BEEN CORRECTED TO ITS PRESENT NUMBER 5074.
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: 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: E5074-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 95.8 cm