"Sumpitans" (2) Spears 2
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Jan 1906
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Of Kayu tapand and billian (or Kayu bise) wood. Tapering shaft, uniform bone, one specimen hooped with rattan. Bought at Sanggan but said to have been brought from the Upper Kapnas River. The Dyaks of the Sanggan River do not use the sumpitans." Per Dr. Michael Heppell, Monash University, 7-6-2008, tapang has the botanical name Koompassia excelsa and belian -Eusideroxylon spp.
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 93 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Dyaks of Borneo".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kalimantan (not certain) / Borneo, Indonesia / Malaysia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Dyak
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 045397
label: USNM Number
content: E244178-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear