Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Start Over Function 1.1.11 Summer Sea Hunting

Museum number:: 2-7181
Culture or time period:: Aleut
Object class:: Clubs (weapons)
Function:: 1.1.11 Summer Sea Hunting
Production date:: 1869-1890
Dimensions:: diameter 2.7 centimeters, diameter 6 centimeters, and length 157 centimeters
Collector:: unknown
Collection place:: Pribilof Islands, Aleutians West Borough, Alaska
Collection date:: 1898
Taxon:: Callorhinus alascanus

Museum number:: 2-6318
Culture or time period:: Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:: Harpoons
Function:: 1.1.11 Summer Sea Hunting and 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Dimensions:: socket— diameter 3 centimeters, shaft at proximal end— width 0.8 centimeters, shaft at finger rest— width 1.5 centimeters, shaft at finger rest— length 2 centimeters, whole— length 144 centimeters, shaft at proximal end— length 0.9 centimeters, point— length 7 centimeters, socket— length 18 centimeters, point— height 0.5 centimeters, and point— width 1.3 centimeters
Collector:: unknown
Collection place:: Norton Sound to Bristol Bay, Alaska
Collection date:: unknown

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