Dagger
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Midshipman Samuel B. Elliott
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: WOODEN DAGGER WITH TWO ROWS OF SHARKS TEETH POINTS INSET INTO GROOVES ON EITHER SIDE & LASHED THROUGH DRILLED HOLES IN THE TEETH AND SHAFT BY MEANS OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. PANDANUS IS WRAPPED AROUND SHAFT JUST BELOW THE SHARKS TEETH, PRESUMABLY AS A HAND GUARD. A BRAIDED COCONUT CORD LOOP IS ATTACHED TO THE DAGGER BELOW THIS. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE GILBERT ISLAND CASE IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1989.[exhibit dismantled in 2004].
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
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: E3696-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dagger
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 37 cm