Adz
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: BASALT ADZE HAFTED TO A WOODEN HANDLE BY MEANS OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. THERE IS SOME OTHER SORT OF FIBER BENEATH THE COCONUT FIBER CORD ACTING AS A CUSHION. MARKS: "TAHITI 3730"; "BOX W 231". ORIGINAL LEDGER BOOK LISTS THIS AS "PAUMOTU", BUT IT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS TAHITIAN IN PEALE CATALOGUE AND ON CATALOGUE CARD.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PEALE CATALOG: "TOI, OR STONE ADZES, MADE AND FORMERLY USED BY THE TAHITIANS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jan 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tahiti, Society Islands, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tahitian
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: E3730-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 43 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 19 cm