Spear Thrower
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1839 to 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: LONG, NARROW, VERY THIN WOODEN SPEAR THROWER. IT IS WIDER, & SPATULATE AT ONE END, & THE STICK NARROWS AND TWISTS AT THE MIDDLE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: "NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION," 1838-1842, VOL. II, PP. 190-193 http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21946692, AND P. 238, http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21946740. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. THE OLD CATALOGUE LEDGER DESCRIBED THIS AS A "WEAPON FOR SNAKING VERMIN OUT OF HOLES," WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN COPIED FROM A PATENT OFFICE LABEL.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "5635-8. 550-551 = SPEAR THROWERS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New South Wales (not certain), Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Aboriginal Australian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5635-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Atlatl
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 97 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 4 cm