Hafted Shell Adze
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: CAMEO-SHELL ADZ HAFTED TO INVERTED L-SHAPED WOODEN HANDLE BY MEANS OF TWISTED COCONUT FIBER CORD. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, "DISCP. I" WRITTEN ON HANDLE. PUBLICATION: KENNETH P. EMORY, "MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO," P. 112-13, ILLUS. FIG. 91A.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A RIGHT-ANGLE HANDLE WITH A SHELL BLADE 7/8" WIDE HAFTED IN."
label: Notes
content: SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO E.R. BEADLE, PA, 1867.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jan 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Napuka Island, Disappointment Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3688-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Length - Overall
content: 27 cm
label: Length - Shell
content: 4.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 15.5 cm