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, WOODEN SPEAR WITH TWO ROWS OF SHARKS TEETH POINTS LASHED THROUGH DRILLED HOLES ONTO PALM LEAF RIBS; THE RIBS ARE THEN LASHED TO THE WOODEN SPEAR BY MEANS OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. HUMAN HAIR IS BRAIDED WITH PALM LEAF TO FORM A CHECKERBOARD PATTERN NEAR THE POINT. THIS SPEAR WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, ABOVE THE GILBERT ISLANDS WARFARE CASE, N.M.N.H., 1989 [exhibit dismantled in 2004].
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3758-60. THREE PRONGED."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kiribati Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Gilbertese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3760-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 201.5 cm