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: FROM CARD: "FLATTENED WOOD SHAFT, HEXAGONAL IN CROSS SECTION, INTO A SHALLOW GROOVE ON ONE SIDE OF THE END OF WHICH IS BOUND A UNILATERLY BARBED BONE POINT (24 CM. L.) WITH HEAVY STRIP OF HIDE. ONE BARB MISSING AND A SHORT PIECE SPLIT OFF THE BACK END OF SHAFT. (1968). [Identified as] TIERRA DEL FUEGO FROM ORIG, PEALE CAT., THOUGH MUS. CAT. BOOK HAD MISTAKENLY CALLED THEM: "CLERMONT (REAO), PAUMOTU I.) REFER: JOHN M. COOPER: "ANALYTICAL AND CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE TRIBES OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO...", BAE B. 63, P. 205-6."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies as a fish spear.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Jun 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Magallanes / Tierra Del Fuego, Chile, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yahgan (Yagán, Yámana) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5051A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Point
content: 22 cm
label: Maximum Length - Object
content: ca. 279 cm