Hieroglyphic Stone
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 May 1887
label: Collection Date
content: 18 Dec 1886 to 31 Dec 1886
name: label: Collector
content: Maj. William J. Thomson
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department of the Navy
label: Expedition
content: Mohican Survey of Easter Island
label: Vessel
content: U.S.S. Mohican
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ABOUT THREE TIMES AS LARGE AS 128377 HAVING NUMEROUS HIEROGLYPHICS CUT INTO IT." Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 8, case 47, where it was identified in exhibit book as "Bird-Man Stone". Illus. Fig. 10f, p. 116 in Horley, Paul & Georgia Lee, 2009, "Painted and Carved House Embellishments at 'Orongo," Rapa Nui Journal, 23(2):106-124. Illus. Fig 7, p. 395 in Kaeppler, Adrienne L. and Jo Anne Van Tilburg. 2020. "Carved Komari (vulva) Stones from Rapa Nui: Museum Objects, Legacy Data, and Contemporary Local History." Journal of the Polynesian Society, 129 (4): 383–406. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.15286/jps.129.4.383-406. Identified there as "Carved, egg-shaped basaltic boulder weighing 27.21 kg. Collected by USS Mohican in 1886. Original location unstated but probably 'Orongo. Note relationship of hands to komari and bird beaks shaped as komari."
label: Notes
content: Per Claudio Cristino and Patricia Vargas, 5-21-2008, this is a house door post from 'Orongo.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 'Orongo, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Easter Islander (Rapanui)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019025
label: USNM Number
content: E128378-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: House Post