Adze
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jun 1875
label: Collection Date
content: 1874 to 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FROM A PIT EXCAVATED IN GRAVELS. LARGE UNFINISHED ROUNDED, TRIANGULAR-SECTIONED ADZE OF THE "HOGBACK" TYPE. GREEN-GREY METAMORPHOSED MUDSTONE. ENTIRE SURFACE BRUISED TO SHAPE, EXCEPT FOR BUTT EXTREMITY AND ANTERIOR, POSTERIOR AND LATERAL EDGES WHICH FORM THE CUTTING EDGE, WHICH REMAIN ROUGHLY FLAKED. WEIGHT: 4 1/2 LBS. INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Pl. 6, f, and described p. 24 in Keyes, Ian W. 1967. New Zealand Artifacts from the United States "Transit of Venus Expedition," 1874-1875. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, 2 (2). https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810223.2.2.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wakatipu Lake, Frankton Arm, South Island (Te Waipounamu) / Otago, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori, Waitaha
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003939
label: USNM Number
content: E21233-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Weight - Object
content: 2.04 kg
label: Length - Object
content: 25.7 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: 6.4 cm