Dagger

Museum number:

2-4010

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Alternate number:

x-156 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.167

Description:

Stone lance head, slate blade. Long, thin slate blade shafted into a wooden foreshaft; baleen lashing; section of foreshaft is also very flat.

Donor:

Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections

Collection place:

Kaguyak, Kodiak Island, Kodiak Island Borough

Verbatim coll. place:

Alaska; Kodiak district; Kaguyak

Culture or time period:

Koniag

Collector:

E. Lennan

Collection date:

Before 1903

Materials:

Baleen and Wood (plant material)

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.1 Hunting and Fishing

Accession date:

1904

Context of use:

whaling

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Comment:

Remarks: A.C. #599; See: Notes on Koniag Material Culture, R.F. Heizer; Anthro Papers, Univ. Alaska, vol, I, no. 1, pp. 11-24(p. 23, pl. j-l).

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