Breadfruit Splitter
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lewis Herron
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: THIS OBJECT, CATALOGUED AS A CLUB, HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A BREADFRUIT SPLITTER. IT HAS A ROUNDED PROXIMAL END WHICH FLARES TO A POINT ABOUT ONE FIFTH OF THE WAY UP THE OBJECT, THEN CARVED BACK AND FLARING AGAIN TOWARD THE DISTAL END. THE POINT IS SOMEWHAT SPATULATE IN SHAPE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG (READS, "1350", BUT SHOULD BE "1250"). IDENTIFIED AS A BREADFRUIT SPLITTER BY RODNEY EWINS OF THE TASMANIAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY, 1986. ACCORDING TO THE OLD CATALOGUE CARD, THIS ONCE BORE AN OLD TAG WHICH READ, "2 WAR CLUBS... L. HERRON, U.S. EX EX".
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3469-74. CAT. NO. 3474 ORIGN. NO 1350, IS FROM FIJI." FROM SECOND CARD: "NARROW PADDLE SHAPE, PLAIN. BUTT-END (ABOUT 8 INCHES) SEPARATED FROM REST OF SHAFT BY FLANGE, WHICH SUGGESTS POSSIBLE NIUE ORIGIN. ORIGINALLY CATALOGED AS SAMOAN. SHAPE, HOWEVER, SUGGESTS TONGA ORIGIN, EVEN IF COLLECTED IN FIJI. BEARS OLD TAG "2 WAR CLUBS,..., L. HERRON, U. S. EX. EX." (BLANK SPACE REPRESENTS WORD BEGINNING IN "V", POSSIBLY THE SHIP VINCENNES)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3474-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Breadfruit Splitter
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 122.3 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 8 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 3.2 cm