Stone Adze
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: MEDIUM SIZED, UNHAFTED STONE ADZE, THE UPPER SURFACE HAS BEEN GROUND VERY SMOOTH, AS WELL AS THE CUTTING EDGE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PIILANI, MINNIE AND WILLIAM KAAWALOA, 1985: "CALLED POHAKU KALAI". EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005.
label: Notes
content: On p. 18 of National Institute for the Promotion of Science, Washington, D.C. A Popular Catalogue of the Extraordinary Curiosities In the National Institute, Arranged In the Building Belonging to the Patent Office. Washington: A. Hunter, 1855, Peale #s 879 to 880 are identified as "Stone adz from Sandwich Island, resembles the cooper's adz, used in excavating log canoes, &c."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3507-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 18.4 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 4.6 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.2 cm