Dart
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 May 2013
name: label: Collector
content: Richard Feinberg
label: Donor Name
content: Richard Feinberg
notes: label: Notes
content: Reed / bamboo shaft. Lare, heavy wooden head, inserted into shaft and wrapped with cord. Label: "Te tika, made from te tiare. From Pu Tokereu, Anuta Island, May 1, 1972."
label: Notes
content: Dart for sporting competition among the young men. Darts are thrown for a distance in long clear dirt area called marae or te marae tika (the dart pitch). Shaft (kau) made from reed (te kao); head (vana) made from any hard wood. This one is te tiare (frangipani). Lashing is pau with cordage from kirivakai. From Pu Tokerau, May 1, 1972. The head of the dart is split [damaged]. This dart has a notch in the end of the shaft which would be used to fit into a ring of sennit worn by the thrower. (Per curator Joshua Bell; notes from speaking to Feinberg, Aug 16, 2012.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anuta Island, Solomon Islands, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Anutan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2059846
label: USNM Number
content: E433250-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dart
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 99 cm
label: Length
content: 21.6 cm
label: Diameter
content: 1.3 cm