Stone 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: SMALL STONE, UNHAFTED ADZE USED IN WOOD WORKING. PIILANI, MINNIE AND WILLIAM KAAWALOA, 1985: "CALLED PAHAKU KALAI (STONE ADZE) ... WAS USED TO DO SOME OF THE DETAILED WORK AND ALSO PART OF THE FINISHING ON ANY OF THE CARVINGS ... IT COULD ALSO GET INTO DIFFICULT PLACES WHERE THE BIGGER POHAKU KALAIS COULDN'T GET." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: On p. 18 of National Institute for the Promotion of Science, Washington, D.C. A Popular Catalogue of the Extraordinary Curiosities In the National Institute, Arranged In the Building Belonging to the Patent Office. Washington: A. Hunter, 1855, Peale #s 879 to 80 are identified as "Stone adz from Sandwich Island, resembles the cooper's adz, used in excavating log canoes, &c."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3509-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 10 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.5 cm
label: Unknown - Top
content: 2.5 cm