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: LONG "COCONUT STALK" CLUB WITH SIX SECTIONS OF CARVED BANDS OR RIBS ALONG UPPER HALF OF CLUB. THE DISTAL END IS POINTED AND LEAF SHAPE AND HAS TWO CRESCENT SHAPES CARVED AS DECORATION. THERE IS ALSO COCONUT FIBER CORD AROUND THE BASE. THIS CLUB WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBITION IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1989. [exhibit dismantled in 2004]. EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "(THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K.P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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: E3347-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 119 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 11 cm