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: SHORT, WOODEN SPEAR WITH TWO ROWS OF SHARKS TEETHPOINTS LASHED THROUGH DRILLED HOLES ONTO PALM LEAF RIBS; THE RIBS ARE THEN LASHED TO THE WOODEN SPEAR BY MEANS OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. BELOW THE POINT, HUMAN HAIR IS BRAIDED WITH PALM LEAF AND COCONUT FIBER TO FORM A CHECKERBOARD PATTERN. THERE IS COPPER WIRE WRAPPED AROUND THE END OF THE SPEAR. THIS SPEAR WAS ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS NEW ZEALAND, BUT IDENTIFIED AS GILBERTESE BY SAUL H. RIESENBERG, 1962.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ORIGINALLY CATALOGED AS NEW ZEALAND, BUT PEALE CATALOG SHOWS AS GILBERTS. SHR. 1/23/62."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Oct 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 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: E5040-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 135 cm