Broken Adze-Blade
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. BROKEN QUADRANGULAR ADZE BLADE OF HARD, FINE-GRAINED, GREENISH METAMORPHOSED MUDSTONE. SURFACES GROUND. SPECIMEN FALLS IN CATEGORY "2A" OF DUFF; TANGLESS, THIN QUADRANGULAR FORM, GREATER ANTERIOR WIDTH THAN POSTERIOR. A PROMINANT EARLY ADZE FORM, OCCURRING IN ALL THE FAMOUS MOA-HUNTING CAMP SITES OF THE SOUTH ISLAND. INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: 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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003939
label: USNM Number
content: E21242-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 6.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6.7 cm