War 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 SPEAR WITH CARVED BARBED POINT OF A HARDER WOOD WHICH IS INSET INTO THE SHAFT AND HAFTED BY MEANS OF COCONUT FIBER CORD. ORANGE AND GREEN FEATHERS ARE VISIBLE BENEATH THE COCONUT FIBER WRAPPING. THERE IS A NAIL EMBEDDED IN THE BARBED PORTION OF THE SPEAR. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THIS OBJECT HAD BEEN CATALOGUED AS FIJIAN, BUT IDENTIFIED BY MARTHA COOPER IN 1967 AS NIUE.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "5058-68. LOCALITY RE-IDENTIFIED AS NIUE (WAS: FIJI), MISS MARTHA COOPER--8/28/67."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Niue, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Niuean
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5062-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 313 cm