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: LONG, WOODEN SPEAR WITH TWO ROWS OF SHARKS TEETH POINTS LASHED THROUGH DRILLED HOLES ONTO PALM LEAF RIBS; THE RIBS ARE THEN LASHED TO THE WOODEN SPEAR BY MEANS OF BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. THE SPEAR HAS A PRONG MADE OF THE SAME MATERIALS AS THE POINT, AND IS ATTACHED TO THE MAIN SPEAR SHAFT BY A SHARKSKIN STRIP. CLOSER TO THE POINT THERE IS ANOTHER SHARKSKIN STRIP WHICH MAY HAVE HELD A PRONG. ON THE SHAFT BELOW THE POINTS THERE IS A HAND GRIP WRAPPED WITH BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD. ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS NEW ZEALAND, BUT IDENTIFIED AS GILBERTESE BY SAUL H. RIESENBERG, 1962.
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: E5037-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 452 cm