Ceremonial Adze
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: BASALT ADZE HAFTED TO A LONG, INTRICATELY CARVED WOODEN HANDLE BY MEANS OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 79, ART. 30, PL. 15, P. 54. NOTE ON OLD CATALOGUE CARD STATES THAT THIS IS SIMILAR TO "TYPE 2C, (BUCK, COOK ISLANDS, FIG. 245)". EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED "CELEBRATIONS," 1982, RENWICK GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 79, ART. 30; PL. 15; P. 54. TYPE 2C (BUCK, COOK ISLANDS, FIG.245)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Sep 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mangaia Island, Cook Islands, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cook Islander
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3722-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Artwork
physicalDescription: label: Length - Overall
content: 139.5 cm
label: Length - Stone Head
content: 24.8 cm