Adze
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jun 1875
label: Collection Date
content: 1874 to 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Kershner
label: Collector
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Transit Of Venus Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "QUADRANGULAR TANGLESS ADZE OF MEDIUM-GREY BASALT. SURFACES GROUND. ANTERIOR SURFACE LONGITUDINALLY AND TRANSVERSELY CONVEX. POSTERIOR FLAT. BLADE-BEVEL IN FORM OF A SMOOTH FLAT CURVE. INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Pl. 8, a,b, and described p. 26 in Keyes, Ian W. 1967. New Zealand Artifacts from the United States "Transit of Venus Expedition," 1874-1875. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, 2 (2). https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810223.2.2.
label: Notes
content: The Wa'a Project, established by Joshua Bell, Curator of Globalization (NMNH), included a Recovering Voices Community Research Visit June 16-27, 2018. The visit brought master and apprentice Hawaiian and Māori canoe carvers and builders to study E164016-0, a historic Hawaiian wa'a (canoe). The group included: Raymond Bumatay, master Hawaiian canoe carver; Alexander 'Alika' Bumatay, master Hawaiian canoe carver; James Eruera, master Māori canoe carver; Bryce Motu, apprentice Māori canoe carver; Leslie 'Les' Matiu (O'Connor), apprentice Māori canoe carver; Kālewa Correa, Curator of Hawai'i and the Pacific at Smithsonian's APAC; Alexis Ching, apprentice Hawaiian canoe carver and documentary book maker; Dino Morrow, documentary photographer; Shannon Hennessey, APAC intern. James Eruera noted that this is the common shape of a Māori adze. This one would likely be used for more finishing work, but not necessarily just canoe work. It could be used for any wood that needed shaping.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Maunganui, Chatham Island (Rēkohu, Wharekauri), Chatham Islands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Moriori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003939
label: USNM Number
content: E17278-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.7 cm