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: FROM CARD: "FLATTENED WOOD SHAFT, OCTAGONAL IN CROSS SECTION, INTO A GROOVE ON ONE SIDE OF THE END OF WHICH A UNILATTERLY BARBED BONE POINT IS BOUND WITH BRAIDED GRASS CORD. L. OF POINT: 39 CM. SHAFT HAS BEEN BROKEN AND WIRED TOGETHER."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies as a fish spear.
label: Notes
content: LONG, FLATTENED WOOD SHAFT, OCTAGONAL IN CROSS SECTION, WITH A SPLIT SOCKET END AND A MULTI-BARBED, BONE POINT BOUND WITH BRAIDED VEGETABLE FIBER. SHAFT HAS BEEN BROKEN AND WIRED TOGETHER. PUBLICATION: BAE BULLETIN 143, HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS, COOPER, PP. 206-7. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Jun 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Magallanes / Tierra Del Fuego, Chile, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yahgan (Yagán, Yámana) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5051B-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Of Point
content: 39 cm