Adze
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jun 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Kershner
label: Collector
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OVOID-SECTIONED ADZE OF BLACK BASALT. SURFACES GROUND, CUTTING EDGE BROKEN. SPECIMEN NEARING AXIAL SYMMETRY IN LATERAL VIEW. POSTERIOR SURFACE EXHIBITS GREATER LONGITUDINAL AND TRANSVERSE CONVEXITY THAN ANTERIOR. NO LATERAL FACES OR BEVEL SHOULDER. INVENTORIED 1975. "MORIORI'S" ARTIFACTS OF THE EARLIEST CULTURE IN CHATHAM ISLANDS WITH DISTINCT POLYNESIAN TRAITS. DUFF'S 'MOA HUNTERS' CULTURE. GREENS 'ARCHAIC PHASE. ADKINS 'WAITAHA' PEOPLE."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Pl. 8, e,f, and described p. 26 in Keyes, Ian W. 1967. New Zealand Artifacts from the United States "Transit of Venus Expedition," 1874-1875. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, 2 (2). https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810223.2.2.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chatham Island (Rēkohu, Wharekauri), Chatham Islands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Moriori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003939
label: USNM Number
content: E20255-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 14.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6 cm