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: SHORT, WOODEN SPEAR WITH TWO ROWS OF SHARKS TEETHPOINTS LASHED THROUGH DRILLED HOLES ONTO PALM LEAF RIBS; THE RIBS ARE THEN LASHED TO THE WOODEN SPEAR BY MEANS OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. BELOW THE SHARKS TEETH PORTION OF THE SPEAR, A HAND GRIP IS FASHIONED FROM BRAIDED HAIR, COCONUT FIBER AND PANDANUS IN A CHECKERBOARD PATTERN. THERE ARE ALSO REMNANTS OF A DARK BLUE WOVEN FABRIC WRAPPED AROUND A SECTION OF THE POINT. ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS NEW ZEALAND, BUT IDENTIFIED AS GILBERTESE BY SAUL H. RIESENBERG, 1962. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ORIGINALLY CATALOGED AS NEW ZEALAND, BUT PEALE CATALOG SHOWS AS GILBERTS. SHR. 1/23/62."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Jan 2017
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: E5042-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 118 cm