Hafted Stone Adze With Handle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
label: Collection Date
content: 1837
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. John H. Aulick
label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BLADE, 10 CM. LONG, 4.5 CM. DIAM. COLLECTED BY CAPT. AULICK, WHO COLLECTED THE AUSTRAL I. TUBAI CARVED SPEAR HEAD, VERY EARLY DATE, PRIOR TO 1850. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM 6/24/41) THIS SPECIMEN IS PROBABLY THE ONE LISTED IN JOHN VARDEN'S WASHINGTON MUSEUM CATALOG (ORIGINAL IN SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES), QUAINTLY, AS FOLLOWS: "STONE ADDS. CAPT. AULICK, U.S. NAVY" RECEIVED BY VARDEN, AUG. 18, 1837. - J.C.E. OCT. 25, 1951."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tahiti, Society Islands, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5348-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Length - Blade
content: 10 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 4.5 cm