Carved Wood Club
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: "PEALE CATALOG IDENTIFYS THIS AS A TOOL FOR POUNDING FROM THE NATIVES OF OREGON. PROBABLY OBTAINED BY WILKES IN NORTHERN PUGET SOUND. THE ART STYLE IS VERY TYPICAL OF SALISH WORK PARTICULARLY COWICHAN. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 263."
label: Notes
content: This appears to be a fish club. Carved wooden club, one end carved with bird head.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: British Columbia (not certain), Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Salish (?)
label: Culture
content: Cowichan (Quw'utsun) (?)
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: E2644-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 64.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 11.5 cm