Jade Club
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Oct 1921
name: label: Donor Name
content: Louis C. Clarke
notes: label: Notes
content: Written in fading and partly rubbed off ink on the artifact itself: "TAKEN FROM THE PAH OF HONI HEKY, BY CAPT. FRANCIS [of the ship] 'VELOCITY' 1845." Note: "pah" is most likey "pa", a Maori settlement, often fortified, especially at that time. "Honi Heky" is most likely Hone Heke, a.k.a. Hone Wiremu Heke Pokai (c. 1807/1808 - 1850), a Maori chief and war leader. Formerly on exhibit in NMNH Exhibit Hall 8, case 6 [exhibit dismantled in 2004], and identified there as a Maori patu, a.k.a. mere, a short hand club / thrusting weapon. It is made of greenstone/pounamu.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui), New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 067347
label: USNM Number
content: E317178-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 31.6 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 9.9 cm