Dart Head
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Titian R. Peale
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: CARVED, HARDWOOD, DART HEAD WITH A THIN, ELONGATED STEM FOR ATTACHING TO A THROWING STICK. HAS A REMNANT OF A ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THERE ARE TWO SPECIMENS WITH THE SAME NUMBER, ONE IS SLIGHTLY LARGER AND THICKER, AND LOOKS MORE LIKE A TOP.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "DART HEAD. 5.5" TOTAL LENGTH. 1.1" LENGTH OF TANG. ORIG. [PEALE] CAT.: "LANCE HEAD USED IN A GAME BY THE FIJI ISLANDERS." 19" MAX. DIAMETER. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, 6/24/41, BISHOP MUSEUM.) SOMEONE HAD ALSO INCORRECTLY MARKED THE ITEMS "PAINT STICKS". MARCH 1962 ANOTHER SPECIMEN, VERY SIMILAR TO THE ONE [DESCRIBED] ON THE ... FRONT OF CARD], BUT SLIGHTLY THICKER AND WITHOUT AS LONG A STEM, TURNED UP WITH THIS NUMBER ON IT. IT ALSO SHOWED EVIDENCE OF BEING A WILKES PIECE, BUT THE WHITE NUMBER HAD BEEN GONE OVER AND APPARENTLY WRONGLY BUT CORRECT ONE NOT DETERMINED. SO SPECIMEN LEFT WITH THE OTHER ONE. - R. ELDER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5996-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dart
physicalDescription: label: Length - Total, Dart Head
content: 14 cm
label: Length - Tang
content: 2.8 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 14 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 2.5 cm