Spear
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, FLATTENED WOOD SHAFT, OCTAGONAL IN CROSS SECTION, WITH A SPLIT SOCKET END BOUND WITH BRAIDED SINEW.THE SPEAR HAS BEEN BROKEN ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF THE WAY DOWN THE SHAFT. MULTI-BARBED, BONE POINT IS BOUND TO THE SOCKET BY BRAIDED VEGETABLE FIBER. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: BAE BULLETIN 143, HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS, COOPER, PP. 206-7.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FLATTENED WOOD SHAFT, OCTAGONAL IN CROSS SECTION, INTO A GROOVE ON ONE SIDE OF THE END OF WHICH A UNILATTERLY BARBED BOBE POINT IS BOUND WITH A FINE STRIP OF TWISTED SINEW. L. OF POINT: 32.5 CM. BACK PART OF SHAFT HAS BEEN BROKEN BUT IS PRESENT."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies as a fish spear.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Jun 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Magallanes / Tierra Del Fuego, Chile, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yahgan (Yagán, Yámana) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5052-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Broken Shaft
content: 217.5 cm
label: Unknown - Broken Shaft
content: 81 cm